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A contractor has won the right to challenge a £658,000 award made against it by an adjudicator more than six years ago. The court heard that the contractor had been engaged by a developer to carry out an asbestos survey on a block of maisonettes. The developer later claimed that the contractor had failed to
A woman who helped set up a business as a junior partner has succeeding in ousting the senior shareholder-director who ignored their agreement and misused company money. The two parties had agreed to open a beauty salon in a shopping centre. The shareholder-director would assist with setting up the business and arranging leases, and then
The government is to carry a review of Employment Tribunal fees, which have proved highly controversial since they were introduced in 2013. The fees are designed to discourage frivolous claims and ensure that the person taking legal action bears some of the cost. Employees currently have to pay up to £1,200 to bring a claim
A developer can go ahead with plans to build student flats in a university town despite strong opposition from the local authority. The case centred on the provisions and requirements of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The site in question, which was designated as a landscape setting area, was situated in Exeter where there
A beauty queen has been awarded a £3.3m settlement in a divorce case described as “bruising and unedifying” by a leading judge in the High Court. The case involved Russian beauty queen Ekaterina Parfenova and her former husband Richard Fields, an American lawyer. The couple met in 2001 and have two children. They have lived
A woman who was subjected to sexist bullying at work has been awarded nearly £250,000 in compensation. Julie Humphryes earned more than £100,000 a year as an architect with the firm, YOO. She told the Employment Tribunal that she became marginalised by the firm after she took maternity leave with her second child in 2012.
A husband and wife have won the right to inherit a share in a house after a court corrected an error made in a will. The case involved the will of a man who had owned a house with his sister-in-law. They had been tenants in common. The will was amended three times between 2005
The time that workers who don’t have a fixed workplace spend travelling from home to their first job of the day counts as work time, according to the European Union’s Advocate General. The same principle applies to the time spent travelling back home after the last job of the day. The issue arose out of
A landlord has won a legal dispute that could see 21 tenants eventually having to pay more than £500,000 a year each in service charges. The case illustrates the danger of entering into agreements that seem a good idea at the time but may have unforeseen consequences long into the future. The court heard that
It is not uncommon for fathers seeking contact with their children to fear that the family court system is biased against them. According to a new study, however, there is no evidence of any bias. The research, by the universities of Warwick and Reading, found that on the contrary, contact applications by fathers were “overwhelmingly