Commercial tenants should be made aware of a High Court decision which held that a tenant failed to exercise a break right effectively when it only paid rent up to the break date. In this case, the break clause required the tenant to give vacant…
On 24 May 2012, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published the government response to the consultation on Phase 2A of the Comprehensive Review of feed-in tariffs (FITs), which covers solar photovoltaics (PV) cost control. The key decisions…
A recent tribunal case highlights the importance for employers of educating their employees about the implications of writing inappropriate or offensive comments on social media sites. The Northern Ireland industrial tribunal held that the dismissal of an employee for making vulgar comments about…
The Supreme Court has held that a law firm had identified legitimate aims (staff retention, workforce planning and dignity) that could potentially justify its compulsory retirement of a partner at the age of 65. The case will now return to the…
Businesses are likely to welcome an ECJ ruling indicating that prospective employers are not obliged to provide information about their recruitment process to an unsuccessful candidate. The ECJ decided that EU discrimination law did not entitle an unsuccesful job applicant…
A company director who was misled into signing a guarantee over a lease, when he thought he was merely witnessing his fellow director’s signature, has escaped liability under the guarantee. Joshua Yardley signed the guarantee, over a 35-year lease on…
When a mortgage brokerage agrees to arrange finance for a customer, does that mean that it has provided a guarantee that the required funding will be found? This question was the subject of a recent case in the Court of…
The family of a girl who sustained horrific injuries in a car crash as a baby has been awarded a multi-million pound settlement in compensation. Cerys Edwards was just 11 months old when she was injured in an accident caused…
The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the High Court that a Christian couple who refused to allow a homosexual couple to share a bed at their hotel had unlawfully discriminated against them. The hotel owners refused double-bedded…
The concept of ‘partnership’ is, in theory, simple. A partnership is an undertaking carried on with a view to profit in which the partners share profits and losses. Regrettably, in reality, things are often not so straightforward and the existence…