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ITH Group v Environment Agency: tribunal halves ESOS penalty after finding non-receipt claims insufficient to rebut service presumption

A healthcare group's civil penalty under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme has been reduced from £33,750 to £16,875 after the First-tier Tribunal found the Environment...

Cohen v Co-Operative Group: High Court dismisses £205m insolvency challenge over Project Chicago restructure

Liquidators' transaction at undervalue and preference claims both fail against the Co-operative Group following a complex 19-day commercial trial.

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council v Persons Unknown: traveller injunction renewed for fourth successive year

High Court upholds Rochdale's encampment injunction as encampment figures fall to historic lows.

Luton airport expansion challenge fails as Court of Appeal refuses extension of time

A procedural lesson for practitioners: missing a seven-day appeal deadline in NSIP challenges carries severe consequences.

Navaian v King Charles III Charitable Fund: High Court strikes out £6m fundraising dispute

Summary judgement granted as oral agreement claim founders on uncertainty and lack of intention to create legal relations.

Goncalves Taborda & Olaiya-Imam v R: Court of Appeal upholds murder and child death convictions following expert evidence dispute

Appeal against conviction dismissed; appellant's sentence reduced from ten to seven years

Kanametova v OSG Records Management: High Court upholds arbitrator's finding of backdated agreement

A challenge to an arbitral award has failed after the Commercial Court found that a long-term incentive agreement was signed in 2020 and fraudulently backdated...

Grimes v Liberty Mutual: High Court rules on meaning of "discovery" in Covid-19 business interruption claims

Post-closure evidence of Covid-19 at premises can satisfy policy trigger, judge finds