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When Devon County Council put forward its proposals for funding elderly care, a number of care homes considered that the amount of finance being provided per person was so inadequate...

The treasurer of a Christian charity has been jailed after he stole more than £500,000 from two charities. Accountant Steven Methuen was responsible for the finances of Amblecote Christian...

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...

Police have been given a new power to protect the public from unscrupulous wheel clampers. Under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, it is now a criminal offence to...

Where a claim has no serious chance of success, the court may order it to be ‘struck out’. When this occurs, the claim fails absolutely. The court has the right...

Mistakes are mistakes, but in law, when a legal claim is made, the fact that a mistake was made is only the first step to obtaining damages. The second step...

The general rule that in litigation the loser pays the winner’s legal costs does not always apply, as a successful claimant found recently. The claim was made in the...

A company director whose company provided services to a charity of which he was a trustee found himself faced with a claim from the charity that he was liable to...

An Italian man who thought he had won £650,000 playing an online game that turned out to be affected by a software bug will get none of his winnings after...

The Court of Appeal has rejected a claim for damages by a woman climber who was injured when a stunt being filmed for a television production went wrong. The...