In circumstances where an unwary taxpayer incurred a $560,000 income tax liability through the partial surrender of life insurance policies, the First-Tier Tribunal has lamented the ‘outrageously unfair’ result arising from a combination of prescriptive
An 88-year-old political campaigner has won a landmark Court of Appeal ruling that the retention on a police database of details concerning his attendance at various protests amounted to a violation of his human right
In circumstances where a teacher’s wrongful dismissal claim has been the subject of no less than five substantive hearings – and is in line for a sixth – the Court of Appeal has urged the
A businessman has been held personally liable for debts of more than $12 million even though he was not a party to the loan agreements which created the debt. The High Court ruled that a
In an important ruling for employers and the insurance industry, a sole director and shareholder who sued his own company after his finger was sliced off in a workplace accident has had his compensation hopes
The controversial HS2 high-speed rail scheme has suffered a setback after the High Court ruled that the consultation process in respect of compensation to be paid to property owners affected by the multi-billion-pound project ‘was
In the context of a $10 million dispute in respect of a metal trading contract, a judge was entitled to substitute his own views for those of arbitrators who had reached an ‘obviously wrong’ conclusion,
A potential clash between one of Britain’s biggest regeneration projects and the re-opening of fuel terminals alongside the Manchester Ship Canal came under the High Court spotlight as landowners argued that they were being kept
A teacher who, whilst suffering from depression and extreme stress, inflicted life-threatening injuries on a 14-year-old pupil, has been barred from working with vulnerable adults, as well as with children. The Court of Appeal ruled
A company that sued a trade rival for slander and malicious falsehood, claiming that an over-enthusiastic salesman had disparaged its business model to a potential customer, has had its case struck out on the basis
