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A recruitment company has successfully appealed against a decision to allow one of its former employees to join a competitor as a shareholder. Egon Zehnder moved to prevent its former employee Ms Tillman from joining a rival firm. In her contract there had been a post-termination non-competition covenant. It stated that the employee should not
An insurance company has been granted a disclosure order allowing it to access recordings of phone calls made to two other firms in an alleged customer poaching case. The case involved D&G, which provides protection for customers after a product manufacturer’s warranty has expired. It became aware that two firms had been cold calling its
A woman has been committed to prison following a dispute with her brother over their late father’s estate. The court heard that neither of the siblings had been named as executor of their father’s will but the sister had taken the role without authority to do so. The brother applied to have the sister removed
A wife has failed in her attempt to force the immediate sale of her former husband’s company shares as the High Court ruled it was “was not a propitious time to sell”. The wife had applied for financial remedy orders after the seven-year marriage broke down. She was from a wealthy family and the couple
The government has launched a consultation on how to ensure greater equality in parental leave entitlements. The consultation will ask whether statutory paternity leave for fathers and same sex partners should be changed, and for suggestions on ways in which the shared parental leave policy introduced in 2015 could be improved. The government is looking
The latest House Price Index figures show that the cost of an average home in the UK jumped 0.7% between March and April. The annual rise to April was 1.4%, bringing the cost of the average property to £228,903. In England, the annual rise was 1.1%, with the average property costing £245,128. The regional data
The Court of Protection has stepped into safeguard the interests of an elderly pensioner who was unable to handle his financial affairs at a time when he was facing complex legal action. The case involved a 75-year-old man who had various medical conditions. He struggled with alcohol abuse and suffered with short-term memory loss and
The government has launched a review on how the family courts protect children and parents in cases of domestic abuse and other serious offences. The three-month project aims to ensure that the family court works first and foremost in the explicit interests of the child, including their safety, health and well-being. The review, chaired by
A woman has won the right to her receive her late partner’s military pension, after a legal battle that lasted several years. Jane Langford had been in a relationship with Air Commodore Christopher Green for 15 years when he died suddenly in 2011. Ordinarily, she would have been entitled to a bereavement grant and her
Five children have been taken from their mother after she allowed the youngest child’s father to live in the house despite him having a history of violence. The mother had four children from a previous relationship, and her youngest with her current partner. The local authority had barred the partner from visiting the house, due