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Can you kill someone and still benefit from your victim's estate? The short answer is no. However, if it is found that a person did not intend to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (being charged with manslaughter instead of murder), they could be...

He accused his boss of not giving him work shifts because they support different football teams, but this was not convincing enough for a contractor to win his claim of unfair dismissal and discrimination.  A fan of the football team Glasgow Rangers...

A transgender worker has won her claim of gender reassignment discrimination after she was asked by her manager if she wore underwear. The employee worked as a catering assistant at the Northern General Hospital. Claimant was questioned by manager if she...

A builder, who got lucrative roles falsely claiming he had university degrees and remained in the positions for more than 10 years, must now pay back part of his earnings. Swindler insisted that he should be referred to as “Dr” He secured...

A recent survey from Which? revealed that seven in ten divorcing couples do not share their pensions. However, this could be a grave mistake when reaching a financial settlement on divorce as pensions often rank with property as the two biggest sources of...

Three siblings have failed to overturn their stepmother’s will after she left everything to her biological son. The son claimed that his mother had changed the will after the siblings’ father died so that he could look after her parrot. ...

A Christian worker has won his claim of unfair dismissal after he refused to take off his neck chain.  Mr Kovalkovs worked at the 2 Sisters Food Group chicken processing firm from November 2019.  He wore a silver crucifix on a neck chain to...

A marketing company has been told that the post-termination covenant in a contract with one of its former suppliers was not enforceable because it prevented fair competition.  The case involved Mr Lambert, who ran his own business, and Credico...

A fashion designer in her early fifties who was passed over for promotion has been awarded £96,000 after making an age discrimination claim.  The case involved Rachel Sunderland, who had worked as a knitwear specialist for Superdry...

Although not legally binding in UK courts, the Supreme Court holds that significant weight should be given to nuptial agreements, providing certain conditions are met. Historically nuptial agreements were not valid in the UK and they were contractually void...