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The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in a case which clarifies how the test of whether members of a limited liability partnership (LLP) have significant influence over its affairs for the purpose of determining whether they are 'salaried...

A cyclist who was injured in a road accident has obtained compensation from the insurer of the driver responsible. The cyclist was riding along a country lane when a car approaching from the opposite direction moved into his path while overtaking a jogger....

The Family Court has granted a husband's application for a divorce he obtained in India to be recognised by the English courts . The husband and wife were both Indian nationals who now had British citizenship. They had married in India in 2010, moved to...

An indoor skiing company has received a £100,000 fine following an accident in which a 12-year-old boy died. The boy was at a tobogganing party to celebrate a friend's birthday. He was descending the main ski slope on a toboggan when it ran into the...

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court has rejected a supermarket chain's application for summary judgment on its claim that a trade mark it was accused of infringing was invalid. A company claimed that the supermarket chain had infringed a trade mark...

A TV producer's partner who was left nothing in his will has commenced High Court proceedings seeking financial provision from his estate. The producer passed away in 2019, at the age of 58. He had been in a long-term relationship with his partner and had...

Compensation has been secured for an elderly man who developed pressure sores while he was in hospital. Ten days after he was admitted to hospital, it was observed that the skin on his lower back was reddened. This was recorded as a pressure ulcer. When an...

The Court of Protection recently granted an application by two NHS trusts for authorisation to carry out a planned caesarean in respect of a woman who was due to give birth. The 29-year-old woman had treatment resistant paranoid schizophrenia. She had...

A mother who tripped and fell while dropping her daughter off at school has obtained compensation for the injuries she suffered. She had taken her daughter to her classroom and was walking along a path when she tripped on a raised paving slab. She fell...

In a case in which a man was named as a girl's father on her birth certificate but was subsequently discovered not to be her biological father, the High Court has ruled that the effect of a declaration of non-parentage was to render his acquisition of...