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A farm worker who was seriously injured by falling bales of hay has obtained a substantial compensation settlement. He was stacking bales of hay when one of the towers of bales fell onto him. He was working alone when the accident occurred and was trapped...

A woman whose thumb injury was misdiagnosed, leading to her undergoing an unnecessary operation, has obtained compensation. She injured her thumb when she tripped on decking. She went to A&E the next day and was told that she might have broken her...

The law affords people a high degree of testamentary freedom, and those seeking reasonable financial provision from an estate must satisfy the courts that it was unreasonable that adequate provision was not made for them. Recently, the High Court ruled that...

A water company has been fined nearly £1 million by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a cyber attack led to the personal data of customers and employees being published on the dark web. The company began an investigation in July 2022...

The High Court has ruled that a three-year-old girl was not habitually resident in England and Wales and it therefore did not have jurisdiction to determine her father's application for her return from the UAE. The girl's mother was a citizen of Pakistan...

Substantial compensation has been secured for a motorcyclist whose leg had to be amputated following a road traffic accident. He was riding his motorbike when a car travelling in the opposite direction swerved into his lane, causing a collision. He suffered...

If a building is a house in multiple occupation (HMO) within the meaning of Section 254 of the Housing Act 2004 , can dwellings within the building also be houses for the purposes of the selective licensing scheme in Part 3 of the Act? The Upper Tribunal...

The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has upheld a taxpayer's appeal against a decision by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that he was resident in the UK in the 2019/20 tax year, finding that 'transit days' and an extra day he spent in the UK after his flight was...

A substantial compensation settlement has been obtained for an electrical linesman who suffered life-changing injuries when he fell from a pylon. He had attached himself to the pylon using a harness and rope. The strut he was attached to came loose and he...

The High Court has ruled that a will made by an elderly woman with dementia, in which she disinherited one of her sons, was invalid due to lack of testamentary capacity and want of knowledge and approval. The woman's previous will, made in 2018, divided...