Employee theft is often an exclusion in commercial insurance policies. When fashion retailer Ted Baker found that it had suffered a major loss due to employee theft of stock, AXA, the company’s insurer, declined to meet the claim on the ground that...
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The Charity Commissioners are taking an increasingly tough stance on what constitutes ‘charitable activity’. In recent months, they have withdrawn the charitable status of the Plymouth Brethren and refused charitable status for the Pagan...
Cadbury, the makers of Dairy Milk and other popular chocolate bars, has been successful with a claim that the colour of purple the company uses for the wrappings of its milk chocolate products is so closely connected with its brand and distinctive enough in...
The son of a baronet who has fought his father through the courts for years over the sale of the family’s estate and his alleged right to support from family trusts has at last won a court decision in his favour . In making his decision, the judge...
About the only plus point of empty commercial premises is that they attract relief from rates for a minimum of three months (six months in the case of industrial premises). Following a recent case in which minimal use of premises for the storage of legal...
In a ruling which illustrates the pitfalls of inaccurate land sale particulars, members of a family who sold their vegetable patch to a developer for more than £150,000 have been ordered to repay the money by a judge who found that part of the land...
A judge has refused to rectify a land transfer between an elderly farmer and his son after rejecting the former’s plea that he had intended the latter only to receive 30 ‘bare acres’ and that part of the farmyard, including buildings, had...
Electrical equipment is the fastest-growing category of rubbish across the European Union (EU). It is estimated that by 2020, 12 million tonnes will be produced. In February 2003, the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive came into...
A London couple who ran a guest house together have had the ownership of their assets decided after an acrimonious court case. They had been together since the early 1990s and had a son. In 1996, the male partner bought a seaside guest house in his own...
Some people may think that once you have obtained patent protection for your product, you need do nothing further to protect your rights against infringement or to claim damages from an infringer. However, in many jurisdictions, merely being the owner of a...
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