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Morrisons supermarket chain may have to pay compensation to more than 5,000 of its staff after their confidential data was published online by an employee with a grudge. The Court of Appeal heard that Andrew Skelton had worked for Morrisons as an internal IT auditor. He developed a grudge against the company after being disciplined.
A landlord has succeeded in legal action to prevent a leaseholder letting out his flat on short-term lets using websites such as Airbnb. The landlord was the freeholder of a building which had been converted into flats. Many of the flats had been sub-let by the leaseholders on assured shorthold tenancies, usually for a minimum
A director has been held personally liable to pay the full market value of products that had been supplied to her company shortly before it went into liquidation. The claim against the director arose from her company’s failure to pay for a cargo of sunflower oil sold to it by a supplier in October 2012.
The government is urging businesses to highlight their experiences of late payment and put forward ideas to ensure earlier settlement, especially by large companies. One in four UK businesses say that late payments are a threat to their survival. Research by the Federation of Small Businesses suggests that prompt payments could add £2.5 billion to
A company director has won her legal fight to recover more than £2m that was misappropriated by her business partner who was also her brother. The couple were directors and shareholders of a company that owned a property operating as a restaurant. The restaurant ceased trading in 2017 and the property was put up for
Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced increases to the minimum wage rates. During his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said the National Living Wage will rise by 4.9%, from £7.83 to £8.21 from next April. This amounts to a £690 annual pay increase for a full-time worker. These are the increases recommended by the Low Pay Commission
A firm specialising in translation services has been awarded £142,000 damages after a rival company infringed its copyright by using similar website names to improve its search engine optimisation (SEO). The case involved Link Up Mitaka Ltd, which traded as the ‘TheBigWord,’ providing translation and interpretation services in the UK and across Europe. A rival
New rules designed to protect more than 800,000 people from poor living conditions in privately rented homes have now come into force. An estimated 4 million people live in private rented homes, including at least 1.1 million who are in licensable ‘houses in multiple occupation’ (HMOs). All landlords who let out a property to
Chancellor Philip Hammond surprised political commentators by producing what’s been described as a “giveaway budget” featuring tax cuts and increased public spending. While many people will welcome the increase in personal tax allowance and extra funds for services like the NHS, there was also some disappointment that there was no increase in inheritance tax allowances
Campaigners have welcomed the government announcement that heterosexual couples will be allowed to enter into civil partnerships instead of getting married if that’s what they wish. Civil partnerships provide the same benefits and rights as marriage in terms of tax, inheritance and protections for each partner if the relationship breaks down. They have only been