If you live in a block of flats, the law is there to protect you against noise or other nuisance caused by fellow residents. In a recent case, a woman who sued her upstairs neighbours over what she described as…
In a cautionary tale for property developers, a company that slapped concrete render and white paint onto a red brick townhouse in a conservation area faced having to knock down two of the building's external walls following a High Court…
Valuing commercial property is an inexact science and expert opinions can diverge dramatically. That was certainly so in one case in which the owner of a bulk liquid storage depot succeeded in establishing that it had for more than a…
The wording of even widely used insurance policies is often not as neat and elegant as it should be and that is why judges are so frequently called upon to resolve issues of interpretation. One example concerned a medical company's…
Memory sticks can fit in any pocket and provide an easy means for disloyal workers to lift their employer's confidential information with a view to setting up on their own. Exactly that happened in one case in which two recruitment…
If you are owed a debt for work done, any delay in seeking legal advice could result in you being left empty handed. In one case on point, an architectural practice that claimed to be owed almost £25,000 for its…
There is a strong public interest in the rehabilitation of offenders but there are also powerful reasons why those with convictions for dishonesty or violence should be screened out of the medical and other professions. That dichotomy was the focus…
Dysfunctional relationships between adults cause emotional harm to children and family judges sadly often have to pick up the pieces. In one case, the relationship between a mother and a maternal grandmother was so toxic that the mother's teenage daughter…
The whole point of so called clean break divorce agreements is that the parties are bound by the consequences, good or bad. However, in one unusual case, a family judge found that post-agreement events had so dramatically turned against an…
New regulations on commercial leases other than those for office premises (leases for 'liberal activities') and leases for less than one year came in on 1 March 2018 in Luxembourg following adoption by the EU Chamber of Deputies. The principal…