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In a long running and emotionally charged case, Joe England successfully represented a school caretaker who was unfairly dismissed and the victim of sex discrimination. In the latest chapter of the case and following a successful appeal earlier this year, Mr England last week successfully gained an increase in the compensatory award from £1135 (rounded) to over £60,000. The male school caretaker was dismissed for allegations loosely based on ‘crossing professional boundaries’ in relation to...

Can a claimant invite the court, instead of granting a freezing injunction, to make a simple injunction requiring the defendant to notify him before he transfers an asset? If so, does he need to satisfy the same test as for a freezing injunction? Carl Brewin (Call 2006) analyses Holyoake v. Candy [2016] EWHC 970 (Ch), in which the issue was recently considered. Carl is a Commercial Law barrister who specialises in business disputes relating to...

The High Court has handed down judgment in the case of Pineport v Grangeglen [2016] EWHC 1318 (Ch), which concerns the circumstances in which the High Court may exercise its inherent equitable jurisdiction to grant relief from forfeiture for non-payment of rent.  The delay in the tenant applying for relief (some 14 months after the lease was forfeited by peaceable re-entry) was one of the longest periods in which a tenant had asked the court...