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Disagreements with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) can be complicated and protracted, but it is vital to comply with deadlines at every stage of the process. In a recent case, a limited liability partnership (LLP) failed to convince the Upper Tribunal (UT)...

Can a local housing authority serve an improvement notice under Section 12 of the Housing Act 2004 in respect of a hazard that may or may not exist? This question was raised in a landlord's recent appeal to the Upper Tribunal (UT). The landlord had been...

Under Regulation 8 of the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 , employees who have worked continuously for four years or more under a series of fixed-term contracts automatically become permanent employees unless...

If a business discovers that someone else has registered a UK domain name which is similar to its own name or trading style, it can make a complaint to Nominet UK through its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). Recently, a DRS complaint made by an...

In a decision that will serve as both a relief and a warning to companies with trusted key employees, the High Court has ruled that a manager who made unauthorised payments to himself from his employer's bank account over an eight-year period was liable to...

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by an investment holding company in respect of whether professional fees in connection with selling a business could be deducted from its profits for Corporation Tax purposes. The company was part of a corporate...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that poultry workers were not 'working' while travelling from their homes to farms where they carried out their duties and back again, and were not entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for the...

When incurring costs in respect of a property, landlords should consider at an early stage whether these will be recoverable through the tenants' service charges. A right to manage (RTM) company recently failed to persuade the Upper Tribunal (UT) that legal...

A financial services company has succeeded in its appeal against a High Court ruling that it was not entitled to claim ownership of a trade mark registered by an LLP carrying out business on its behalf. The LLP was set up in 2007 as part of the...

Where an employee who has made a protected disclosure is dismissed, can the dismissal be unfair if the decision-maker is merely aware that the employee has made a disclosure, or is some understanding of the details of the disclosure required? That question...