‘A council’s threat of legal costs against landowners if they did not undertake to stop developing their land was not “coercive”, a High Court judge has ruled.’
Law Society's Gazette, 20th March 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A retired couple who say a 19-storey office tower is blocking the light in their £1m apartment next to the Thames are suing in a case which could see the £35m building demolished.’
The Independent, 19th March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The University of Cambridge has failed in an attempt to secure a five-year High Court injunction against Israel and Palestine-related protests on some of its sites.’
The Independent, 28th February 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘As housing practitioners, an application we see regularly is for an injunction for access for gas safety checks. Over the last 3 months, 4 issues have been raised with me so I thought it was a good time to write an article on the subject.’
St Ives Chambers, 21st January 2025
Source: d23mtoo6rceerw.cloudfront.net
‘A major UK supermarket has won an injunction to prohibit farmers from protesting at its distribution centres and from blocking nearby access roads.’
OUT-LAW.com, 17th February 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A freezing order is a court order which prevents a party from disposing of or dealing with its assets. It is therefore an essential tool for those looking to protect assets to ensure those assets are available to satisfy a court order.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th February 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A high court judge has found that MI5 gave false evidence to three courts as it faced scrutiny over its handling of a neo-Nazi agent alleged to have attacked his partner.’
The Guardian, 12th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Rachel Sullivan analyses a case where it was successfully argued that contempt proceedings, brought against the local authority in a dispute over the felling of trees, were an Aarhus Convention claim and thus the claimant was entitled to costs protection.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th February 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Imaging orders offer another useful tool to civil fraud litigators needing to urgently prevent the concealment and destruction of relevant digital evidence.’
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Jane Talbot discusses how some of the issues faced by social landlords when it comes to obtaining access injunctions can be overcome.’
Local Government Lawyer, 24th January 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A recent judgment by the Court of Appeal provides long-awaited clarity to the threshold to be met in demonstrating a “good arguable case” when seeking to obtain a worldwide freezing order (WFO).’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A creditor has been prohibited from obtaining a mandatory injunction that would have required a debtor to draw down a lump sum from his occupational pension scheme for the purpose of paying a default judgment.’
OUT-LAW.com, 9th December 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘This was a County Court appeal from a first instance decision by a District Judge that the Court did not have jurisdiction under Civil Procedure Rule 25.1 to make an order allowing Sovereign to force entry to their tenant’s, Ms Hall, property.’
Nearly Legal, 8th December 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Daryl Bigwood looks at the lessons from a successful appeal over a judge’s refusal to include a positive requirement in an ASB injunction.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th December 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months for contempt of court for repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee, in breach of an injunction.’
The Guardian, 28th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A disgruntled litigant who made threatening calls to a law firm has been banned from making any direct further contact with the practice.’
Law Society's Gazette, 22nd October 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A law firm has been granted an injunction by the High Court after four female members of staff received anonymous, “obscene and criminal” phone calls.’
Legal Futures, 22nd October 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court does not have jurisdiction to grant claimants a protective injunction stopping a defendant from harassing their lawyers, a judge has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 21st October 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Much ink will be spilt over the Supreme Court’s decision in Tesco Stores v USDAW [2024] UKSC 28 relating to an implied contractual term preventing Tesco from firing (and then rehiring) employees in order to remove guaranteed retained pay, and consequential injunctive relief to prevent the same. Here, I consider only one issue from that decision that impacts on applications for injunctions in the employee competition sphere: the question of damages as an adequate remedy.’
Blackstone Chambers, 23rd September 2024
Source: www.employeecompetition.com
‘By a Judgment handed down on 30 September 2024 the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Ms Isabel dos Santos against a worldwide freezing order (WFO) and a consequential costs order granted against her by Bright J on 20 December 2023. The Judgment provides welcome clarity in the wake of conflicting authority on the proper approach to the merits threshold for obtaining a freezing injunction, and also confirms the approach to be taken on costs.’
The 36 Group, 9th October 2024
Source: 36group.co.uk
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