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The Family Court has granted a husband's application for a divorce he obtained in India to be recognised by the English courts . The husband and wife were both Indian nationals who now had British citizenship. They had married in India in 2010 and had...

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court has rejected a supermarket chain's application for summary judgment on its claim that a trade mark it was accused of infringing was invalid. A company claimed that the supermarket chain had infringed a trade mark...

A TV producer's partner who was left nothing in his will has commenced High Court proceedings seeking financial provision from his estate. The producer passed away in 2019, at the age of 58. He had been in a long-term relationship with his partner and had...

The Court of Protection recently granted an application by two NHS trusts for authorisation to carry out a planned caesarean in respect of a woman who was due to give birth. The 29-year-old woman had treatment resistant paranoid schizophrenia. She had...

In a case in which a man was named as a girl's father on her birth certificate but was subsequently discovered not to be her biological father, the High Court has ruled that the effect of a declaration of non-parentage was to render his acquisition of...

The Upper Tribunal (UT) has upheld a landlord's appeal against a civil penalty imposed on him for managing an unlicensed house in multiple occupation (HMO). The property had five bedrooms which were let to individuals who did not form a single household....

The Court of Appeal has reinstated an earlier ruling of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) that a taxpayer was not resident in the UK for Income Tax purposes during the 2015/16 tax year due to exceptional circumstances that prevented her from leaving the country....

The Upper Tribunal (UT) has ruled that a taxpayer could not claim relief from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on a loan to a company that had been discharged in exchange for new shares, because the loan was no longer 'outstanding' when the claim for relief was made....

It is always advisable to check the service charges you are asked to pay rather than simply assuming they are correct. This point was illustrated by a recent case in which four leaseholders obtained refunds of service charges relating to electricity costs...

Following an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), a motor insurance worker who unlawfully accessed personal data on his employer's systems has received a suspended prison sentence. The worker led a team dealing with accident...