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Arbitration clauses are commonplace in commercial contracts and generally provide a relatively swift and cost-effective route to resolving disputes without resort to full-blown litigation. Their correct interpretation can, however, present a challenge and...
A former East Grinstead youth worker died after being exposed to asbestos more than 50 years ago, an inquest has heard. The man died on 27 th September 2018 at St Catherine’s Hospice. Following an inquest into his death, the coroner recorded a...
When exercising a break clause in a commercial lease, tenants are usually required to deliver up a property with vacant possession – but what exactly does that mean? The High Court confronted that issue in a case concerning a recording studio which...
The claimant, a 34-year-old man, received £3,000,000 for the injuries he suffered due to a road traffic accident in September 2015. He sustained a degloving injury to the foot, developed an infection and had to undergo a below-knee amputation, suffered...
Some shop floors are rough and ready places where foul language abounds, but if a worker makes a racist or other discriminatory comment it is likely to be the employer who ends up carrying the legal can. An Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling underlined the...
A coroner has ruled that a Burton granddad who once worked as a 'saw doctor' repairing and servicing saws which were used to cut asbestos, died from being exposed to the dust. The man, 83, passed away at his home in Burton on 16 March 2019. An...
The claimant, a 31-year-old woman, received £26,000 for the knee injury she sustained when slipping at her place of work in March 2016. She underwent an arthroscopy and might require a further operation in the future but was expected to make a full...
Purchasers of private companies sadly often feel that they have been sold a pup, but making such an assertion is a great deal easier than proving it. That was certainly so in a case concerning the acquisition of a commercial lettings agency in which the High...
A furniture manufacturing company, Godfrey-Syrett Limited (in administration), has been sentenced for failing to prevent exposure to asbestos at its factory in Killingworth, Newcastle upon Tyne. North Tyneside Magistrates heard how during a 14-year period,...
