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• Can Planning Objections Amount to Harassment? Guideline High Court Ruling

  • Posted7 November 2023

  Landowners intent on developing their properties can find it intensely annoying when neighbours resist their plans. However, as a High Court ruling made plain, the right to object to planning...

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• Landlord of Converted Office Block Pays Price for Breaching Fire Safety Rules

  • Posted6 November 2023

  To what extent should landlords who have breached fire safety rules be entitled to recover the costs of remedying such breaches from tenants by way of service charges? The Upper...

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• Oil Major Fends Off Shareholder Bid to Reform its Climate Change Strategy

  • Posted3 November 2023

  So-called ‘activist’ shareholders have a perfect right to seek to influence the strategy of companies in which they hold a stake. In a guideline ruling, however, the High Court shut...

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• Wealthy Divorcee Hit Hard in the Pocket for ‘Delinquent’ Litigation Conduct

  • Posted2 November 2023

  Those who attempt to lie their way to a favourable result in divorce proceedings are more than likely to be found out and hit hard in the pocket. That was...

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• Employment Status, Control and Mutuality of Obligation – Guideline Ruling

  • Posted31 October 2023

  There is no reason in principle why someone who is a shareholder and controlling director of a company cannot also be its employee. However, as an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling...

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• High-Interest Loans Can Be Vulnerable to Challenge – High Court Ruling

  • Posted30 October 2023

  Borrowers who take out loans at high rates of interest with their eyes wide open may have only themselves to blame. As a High Court case showed, however, such loans...

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