Jess Harrold
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Judgment day next week in £23m valuation negligence case
The Court of Appeal will give judgment next Tuesday in a closely watched case, in which an Irish company was awarded €32m (£23.7m) in damages for professional negligence over a…
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Delivering justice in a defective system
On his retirement as president of the Valuation Tribunal for England, Professor Graham Zellick offers his reflections on his achievements and disappointments in the role
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Court backs 85/15 split on ex-couple’s property
The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that former partners who bought a London home together as joint tenants but later separated now own the property as tenants in…
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Owner of former hospital fighting to demolish rather than carry out £25m restoration
The owner of a former hospital in Camden that was refused permission to demolish it and build what would be a valuable eight-bedroom house in its place has taken the…
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Back to the Future: what’s in store
21 October 2015 – the date to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled in 1980s film Back to the Future Part II. We celebrate this momentous pop culture occasion…
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Robert Tchenguiz’s “staggering” claim allowed to proceed
The High Court has granted permission to Robert Tchenguiz to rely on particulars of claim three times longer than the usual limit in an action against accountants Grant Thornton and…
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Tchenguiz’s “staggering” claim allowed to proceed
Robert Tchenguiz has been allowed to rely on an unusually long particulars of claim in his High Court battle
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Court of Appeal rejects hotel sale undervalue claim against administrators
The developers of a Kent hotel who ran out of funding three weeks before opening have failed in a claim that their administrators later sold the premises at an undervalue
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Council says developer cannot choose the cheaper planning permission
The Court of Appeal is being asked to rule that a developer that secured two planning permissions for the same scheme – one requiring a near £1m transport contribution, and…
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High Court boost for leading rally car firm
A development that will enable a successful Cumbria-based rally car company to enter the road car market has survived an attack in the High Court
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Housing association directorship means apparent bias for planning committee councillor
Outline planning permission for a development near the River Wylye in Wiltshire has been quashed because a councillor, whose vote in favour proved crucial, is a director of a housing…
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Trump wind farm appeal underway at Supreme Court
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump will have one eye on this side of the Atlantic today, as his company goes to the Supreme Court in a bid to block a…