“When is Greek yoghurt legally Greek yoghurt? That was the question put to Mr Justice Briggs in a major IP battle between the makers of Total Greek Yoghurt, Fage UK, and New York-based Chobani.”
The Lawyer, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Deirdre Fottrell, barrister of Coram Chambers, reviews recent cases involving human rights issues which are of significance to family lawyers.”
Family Law Week, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“There was no general rule that the Financial Services Authority acting pursuant to a public duty should be required to give to the court a cross-undertaking in damages in favour of third parties affected by the obtaining of a freezing injunction under section 380(3) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and/or section 37(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The act of communication to the public for the purposes of article 3(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC and section 20 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 occurred both where the communication originated and where it was received.”
WLR Daily, 28th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A senior judge has made an important ruling in favour of transparency in the family courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Bodies acting under a ‘public law duty’ do not need to cover losses incurred by third parties when they ‘freeze’ the assets of a company under investigation, the Supreme Court has confirmed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Dr Chhabra is a consultant psychiatrist at Broadmoor Hospital. She was alleged by a member of the public to have breached patient confidentiality whilst travelling on a train (an allegation that might cause lawyers who work on trains pause for thought…). Her employer Trust appointed an outside psychiatrist to investigate the allegations under the Trust’s procedures, implementing ‘Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS’. The case manager, on reviewing the investigator’s report, decided that the matter should be brought before a disciplinary hearing at which Dr. Chhabra would face allegations of gross misconduct that may have led to dismissal. Separately the Trust referred capability concerns relating to Dr. Chhabra that had also been considered in the investigator’s report, to the National Clinical Assessment Service (‘NCAS’).”
Littleton Chambers, 12th February 2013
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
“Google, Facebook and Twitter have been ordered by the police to remove photographs purporting to show one of James Bulger’s killers.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge has banned protests by groups such as the English Defence League being held within 500 metres of the home of the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A retired solicitor who published claims that Madeleine McCann’s parents caused her death has been given a suspended jail sentence.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This case, described by Cobb J as an ‘unusual and troubling’ case, concerns a 1 year old girl ‘SB’ and a woman ‘RCW’. SB was born prematurely, at 27 weeks, weighing just 1 kg; almost immediately she was abandoned by her natural mother.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A council has been blocked from removing a girl from her would-be adoptive mother who had gone blind, after a judge ruled social workers were wrong to assume that her visual impairment meant she was not a suitable parent.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A copyright owner did not have a proprietary claim to money derived from infringement of the copyright.”
WLR Daily, February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
VTB Capital plc v Nutritek and others [2013] UKSC 5; [2013] WLR (D) 41
“Where a claimant alleged that it had been induced by the fraudulent misrepresentations of a third party to enter a contract with a company, and sought to make a contractual claim against the third party as being jointly and severally liable with the company, it was not appropriate for the court to pierce the corporate veil, even if it could do so on appropriate facts, since to do so would render the third party liable as if he had been a co-contracting party with the company when he had not, and when none of the contracting parties, including the claimant, had intended that he should be.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court, 6th February 2013
“Actress Kate Winslet’s husband is not a public figure in his own right, a High Court judge said today. Ned RocknRoll had ‘briefly become something of public figure’ as a result of his relationship with Miss Winslet, said Mr Justice Briggs. But the judge said that was not enough to place Mr RocknRoll – a nephew of tycoon Sir Richard Branson – into the ‘public sphere’.”
The Independent, 17th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Sun has won a two-month battle to overturn an injunction brought by Bristol City Council that prevented it from reporting details of a child protection scandal.”
The Guardian, 9th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A legal attempt by a chief constable to block the recruitment of his successor has been thrown out by the high court in London.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” ‘Hold the front page: news-gathering in a time of change,’ speech by Lord Justice Leveson, University of Melbourne, Australia, 12 December 2012.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 12th December 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
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