A swinger who was attacked with bear repellent while attending a drug-fuelled threesome has been awarded £800 criminal injury compensation. Owen Greenan met Stephen Barclay, 36, and Leanne Reid, 31, online and the couple invited him to their home in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Mr Greenan, who lives in Glasgow, was ordered by the couple to sit [...]

Over the last five years Royal Mail has paid out more than £700,000 in compensation for poor performance in Sussex. The figures emerged following a freedom of information request which showed Royal Mail received more than 80,000 complaints from disgruntled Sussex residents living in the BN postcode area. This equates to 43 complaints per day [...]

A 42-year-old man had been ordered to pay compensation to a sixteen-year-old after head butting him following a funeral. Wayne Hunter, of Cleator Moor, was in an inebriated condition after he was pallbearer at the funeral of his partner’s mother last year. He later described his drunkenness level as 10 on a scale of 1 [...]

A former marketing manager has been awarded substantial compensation over the discrimination and victimisation she suffered during her pregnancy. Julie O’Brien brought her case against her former employers, Persian Properties trading as O’Callaghan Hotels, after she came under immense pressure to take voluntary redundancy when she became pregnant for the third time in 2009. Orlaith [...]

Customers at spread betting firm WorldSpreads are expecting compensation after the company went into administration with a £13m black hole in its accounts. After “accounting regularities” were discovered, WorldSpreads, which operates online and telephone trading services, were placed into administration. Administrators KMPG said the company’s 15000 customers were owed a collective £29.7 million but WorldSpreads [...]