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Although judges do their best, no amount of money can ever make up for the death of a loved one as a result of someone else's negligence. In one case, the grieving family of a Spanish businessman who died in a horrific road accident in the UK were awarded...
One of the most important duties required of a company director is to keep, maintain, preserve and, if necessary, deliver up adequate accounting records. The High Court resoundingly made that point in imposing a seven-year directorship disqualification on...
The tax regime is subject to constant change and it is generally up to taxpayers to keep their knowledge up to date in a fluid landscape. However, as a case concerning tax charged on high-income recipients of Child Benefit showed , HM Revenue and Customs...
Commercial landlords and tenants may contract out of the security of tenure provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , but only if certain conditions are met. One of those conditions came under close analysis by the Court of Appeal in a ruling that...
Holidaymakers who are injured abroad can face formidable difficulties in obtaining compensation. However, the case of a little girl who almost drowned in a Spanish swimming pool showed that English personal injury lawyers have all the knowledge and skills...
Restrictions on the use to which properties can be put often lurk in old title deeds. As one case showed , however, some of them only endure as long as a human lifetime whilst others have no such shelf life and continue to have effect indefinitely. The...
When recruiting staff, you may have a particular type of candidate in mind, but that is precisely the mindset that can give rise to discrimination. A company that advertised on social media for 'mothers' to work as babysitters fell into exactly that trap and...
Fading memories and destroyed employment records can pose a particular problem to those seeking compensation for asbestos-related diseases, which very often take decades to develop. In awarding a widow substantial damages, however, the High Court was able to...
The value of many assets has been devastated by COVID-19 – but is that a good enough reason for setting aside divorce settlements agreed before the pandemic struck? A family judge considered that issue in a guideline case . The case concerned a...
When elderly people are injured in accidents that are not their fault, lawyers have to move fast to ensure they receive the full benefit of the compensation due to them. In a case on point, a woman in her 90s who was struck by a car as she crossed the road...
