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A fencing contractor has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after one of its employees suffered an electric shock while working on a construction site. The employee was using a breaker to dig into the ground as part of preparations to...
An engineering and consulting company has been fined nearly £13 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under Section 91 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 , after it published inaccurate information in its full-year 2022 and 2023...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the costs of surveys and studies in connection with the construction of wind farms were not 'capital expenditure on the provision of plant' for the purposes of Section 11(4)(a) of the Capital Allowances Act 2001 , and...
The government has published provisional statistics on injuries on public roads in Great Britain during 2025. In reported road collisions, there were an estimated: 1,556 fatalities, a decline of 3 per cent compared to 2024; 29,911 people killed...
The High Court has dismissed an ex-wife's appeal against a ruling that her former husband's share of the home they owned together was held by his trustees in bankruptcy. The couple had married and purchased the property in 2009. They had two children. In...
A compensation settlement has been obtained for a young man who suffered permanent brain damage as a boy due to a delay in diagnosing a blocked shunt. He had been born with congenital aqueduct stenosis, a condition that blocks the flow of cerebrospinal...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently took part in a week of action, along with 16 other regulators internationally, to protect consumers from illegal 'finfluencers'. This included enforcement activity, consumer awareness campaigns, and educational...
The High Court has dismissed a landlord's appeal against a decision that a pub company was entitled to a new tenancy of its premises, the landlord having failed to establish that it intended to carry out works on the premises and could not do so without...
Compensation has been obtained for a healthcare assistant who slipped on a path while visiting a patient at a care home. She had to leave the building during her visit. The door was locked when she returned, so she walked along a path at the side of the...
Figures from the High Court have shown that the number of disputed probate claims is continuing to rise. A total of 1,217 disputed probate cases were filed at the High Court in 2025, an increase of 12.7 per cent from the figure of 1,080 in 2024. There were...
