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Feb

2024

Divorce – Alleged Bigamy Raised in Financial Remedies Dispute

Written by Gemma Whitchurch

The issue of bigamy and its potential impact on a person’s ability to seek financial remedies in a divorce came under the legal spotlight recently. A husband made an application to strike out his wife’s financial remedies claim on the basis that she...

Jun

2023

Neighbours' Disputes – Negotiate Now or Pay a High Price Later

Written by Ian Sheppard

Many neighbours' disputes may, at least to an outsider, appear trifling. However, as a High Court ruling showed, they matter very much to those involved and, in the absence of amicable negotiation, they can very easily become ruinously expensive. A...

Mar

2023

Increase in Rainfall Looms Large in High Court Neighbours' Dispute

Written by Ian Sheppard

In a head-turning decision, the High Court has acknowledged that increased rainfall arising from environmental changes was one cause of excess seepage of water from a landowner's field into a neighbouring domestic garden. The garden owner sought an...

Aug

2022

Collective Bargaining Agreements and Direct Inducements to Employees

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

The ability of trade unions to negotiate effectively on their members' behalf would be greatly diminished if employers were permitted to bypass collective bargaining agreements and offer inducements directly to employees. The Employment Appeal...

Jun

2022

Suffered Prejudice as a Minority Shareholder?

Written by Roy Colaba

Minority shareholders may have little say over a company's day-to-day management but they are entitled not to be subjected to unfair prejudice by the majority. The High Court made that point in the context of a family company that became the focus...

Jun

2021

Neighbours Planning a Garden Development? You Are Not Powerless

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Domestic gardens, which many people view as the glory of British suburbia, present a tempting prospect to builders amidst burgeoning housing demand. As one case showed, however, objectors to such developments are by no means powerless. The owners of...

Jul

2020

Tempted by an Exotic Investment Scheme? Is it too good to be true?

Written by Dean Parnell

It is easy to be tempted by exotic investment schemes that promise spectacular returns. However, as a High Court case strikingly showed, they are often too good to be true and it is always wise to get an independent professional to check them out...

Jun

2020

High-Profile homeowners can divert footpath away from their garden

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Ramblers love footpaths, but the same cannot be said for landowners concerned to protect their privacy and security. That was certainly so in one case in which homeowners with a high media profile won the right to divert a footpath which crossed...

May

2020

Neighbours succeed in blocking controversial garage extension

Written by Sydney Mitchell

If a neighbour obtains planning permission for a building project to which you object, that does not always mean that you just have to grin and bear it. In a case on point, objectors to a householder’s plans to extend his garage succeeded in...

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dispute

Divorce – Alleged Bigamy Raised in Financial Remedies Dispute

Neighbours' Disputes – Negotiate Now or Pay a High Price Later

Increase in Rainfall Looms Large in High Court Neighbours' Dispute

Collective Bargaining Agreements and Direct Inducements to Employees

Suffered Prejudice as a Minority Shareholder?

Neighbours Planning a Garden Development? You Are Not Powerless

Tempted by an Exotic Investment Scheme? Is it too good to be true?

High-Profile homeowners can divert footpath away from their garden

Neighbours succeed in blocking controversial garage extension

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