The Court of Appeal has rejected arguments that a European Union (EU) national was disproportionately penalised by the refusal of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) on the basis that he had not been ‘legally working’ for an
Unfortunate private investors in a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which was marketed as low risk – but the main assets of which were revealed as ‘mere shams’ in the wake of its collapse – may
An £8 million fine imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on a trading company that engaged in deliberate manipulation of the stock market for its own profit and to the detriment of other investors
A boat dweller has triumphed in an epic fight to moor his vessels on a stretch of the Grand Union Canal after the Court of Appeal emphasised that ‘it’s a free country’ and that everyone
In a ruling with important implications for the future policing of the internet, the Court of Appeal has decided that there are circumstances in which Google Inc. could be successfully sued for defamation in respect
A recent Freedom of Information Request to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed that in 2011, HMRC obtained by covert means no fewer than 14,000 records of communications by taxpayers’ in connection with tax
A UK resident member of a Delaware limited company will have to pay 67% tax on his very substantial profits after failing to convince the Court of Appeal that he is a victim of double
A partner in a professional firm whose colleague engaged in a £2.5 million mortgage fraud was not liable for his misdeeds. A mortgage lender’s arguments that, on a correct interpretation of the Partnership Act 1890,
In a decision of importance to landowners and water utility companies, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that the implied power enjoyed by sewerage undertakers for over 100 years to discharge waste water on to
An opera singer who claims that her father reached a ‘usurious’ agreement on her behalf, when she was a minor, to pay a businessman a substantial part of her future earnings in return for a
