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When a Lancashire man misled the court about his finances in order to reduce the financial settlement he would have to make in favour of his ex-wife, he probably imagined that the result would be rather different from what actually happened.
Following an investigation into his affairs, it was revealed that expenses claimed as building work done on his property were falsified and that...
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Many people will have read the recent reports of a 67-year-old lady, Marlene Howes, who was prosecuted for allegedly fraudulently claiming pension tax credits and for allegedly concealing that she had received a £50,000 legacy under her mother’s will. Mrs Howes’ defence was that her mother had left her the legacy to be held in trust for the care of her mother’s many...
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Asbestos is present in many buildings and is usually safe if left undisturbed. However, if it is disturbed and asbestos particles are released into the air and inhaled or ingested, it can cause fatal diseases.
A contractor has been fined for safety failings after two subcontractors were unwittingly exposed to asbestos fibres at Reading University.
Gardner Mechanical Services...
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The saga of the estate of the late Bernard Matthews, who made his fortune supplying turkey-based products, will serve as a salutary reminder of the complexities that can attach to the affairs of anyone with foreign property.
Mr Matthews had expressed the wish that on his death his substantial villa in France should go to his long-time companion, Odile Marteyn, who had, he said,...
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November saw the introduction of a new child protection regime for children from the UK who live beyond the EU’s borders, following the adoption of the 1996 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, otherwise known as the ‘Hague Abduction Convention’. Previously, children of EU member states were only protected within the EU.
Any child...
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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 Ted Baker had not taken out the cover offered for employee theft.
The total losses to Ted Baker were approximately £4...
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A man who was made bankrupt has failed in an attempt to persuade the court that, following his discharge from bankruptcy, he should be relieved of the duty to make payments due to his ex-wife. He had been ordered to pay her the sum of £450,000 following a 2003 court order.
The man was ordered to pay the sum in instalments over six years. He did not keep up the payments and a...
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The operators of a metal waste disposal and reclamation yard have triumphed in their High Court fight to overturn an Environment Agency notice suspending its activities on noise pollution grounds.
Numerous complaints about ‘unpredictable loud bangs and crashes’ coming from the Parkhall Works in Stoke-on-Trent had led to the Agency issuing a notice under the Environmental...
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A husband has been ordered to pay his ex-wife more than £4 million in a divorce settlement that treats the wife’s substantial debts as being shared between them. The settlement awards the wife the former matrimonial home, subject to the balance of the mortgage being paid from her cash settlement.
The case involved a couple who married in 1983 and have two children, both now...
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Under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, an organisation is guilty of the offence of corporate manslaughter (corporate culpable homicide in Scotland) if the way in which it manages or organises its activities causes a death and amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care to the deceased. A substantial part of the breach must have been in the way activities...
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