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The High Court has refused to grant a company an order preventing a franchisee from trading following a dispute over the ending of a contract. The judge held that if the company won its case, it could be awarded damages, which would be an adequate way for it to recover any loss. The case involved
Unless you have been on a very long holiday in a darkened room with no access to the news you will be aware that on June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU. While the notice period required means that the actual exit date is still unclear, some immediate challenges for businesses
More than half a million people in the UK have opened Help to Buy ISAs within a period of only six months, according to the latest government figures. The saving-friendly ISAs became available in December 2015 and are very attractive to first time buyers because the government has agreed to add a 25% bonus to
A landed family have amended a trust to ensure that if any of their descendants are gay, their partners will have the same rights as heterosexual spouses. The Pembertons have lived at Trumpington Hall in Cambridgeshire for three centuries. The hall has often been used for as a location for films and TV programmes such
A wife has been awarded more than £1.5m in a divorce settlement that acknowledges her contribution to the marriage but protects the wealth her husband had accrued before they met. The case involved a husband and wife, currently aged 83 and 67, who began cohabiting in 1998 and married in 2000. At the time of
A school was entitled to dismiss its headteacher after she failed to disclose her relationship with a man convicted of making indecent images of children. The Employment Tribunal heard that the man was sentenced to a community order and a sexual offences prevention order forbidding him from having unsupervised access to children under 18. The
A court has ordered that a nine-year-old girl who was abducted by her father should be returned to her mother. The case involved an English father and a Polish mother who had separated after a long relationship. Following a dispute over their daughter’s residence, the English court declared that the child had become habitually resident
A father had understood what he was doing when he left his daughters out of his will and made specific provisions for the division of his estate. That was the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of two daughters who believed their father had been subjected to undue influence shortly before his
The Brexit vote caused a significant drop in confidence and investor demand in the UK commercial property market, according to a survey by the Royal Institution of Commercial Surveyors (RICS). Both the investment and occupier sides of the market have been affected and both rent and capital value expectations fell into negative territory. A survey
One of the EU’s leading law officials has found in favour of a woman who was sacked for wearing an Islamic headscarf at work. The findings of an EU Advocate General are not binding on the European Court of Justice (ECJ), although they are usually accepted. The case involved a French design engineer who wore