“Lawyers for the BBC are considering making a formal appeal against a court order that has banned the corporation from showing a dramatised film about the experiences of rioters who took part in last summer’s disorder.”
The Guardian, 19th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“John Pusey and his wife Cherry spent 10 years trying to stop passing motorists using the bottom of their garden as a public convenience. But while the high court agreed it was annoying – the judges ruled the ‘comfort breaks’ did not amount to a ‘nuisance.’ They rejected the couple’s claim to close down the lay-by by the side of the road, leaving them with a six figure legal bill.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The BBC has pulled a film about the experiences of rioters during last summer’s disturbances just hours before it was due to be broadcast after a ruling from a judge. The film, due to be broadcast on BBC2 at 9pm on Monday, was a dramatisation based on the testimony of interviews conducted for the Guardian and London School of Economics research into the disorder.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Residents of a tower block in east London where surface-to-air missiles are being stationed for the Olympics have dropped their legal case.”
BBC News, 11th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Whilst springboard injunctions are a well-established remedy, the precise circumstances in which they can be obtained, and their scope and duration, can often be unclear. Two recent decisions offer some helpful guidance. These are QBE Management Services Ltd v Dymoke [2012] EWHC 80 (QB) and Clear Edge UK Ltd v Elliot [2011] EWHC 3376 (QB).”
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11 KBW, 1st June 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“A company cannot obtain an injunction banning a patent expert it used to employ from offering advice to her current employer on a legal dispute involving both firms, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The principles established in Prince Jefri Bolkiah v KPMG (A firm) [1999] 2 AC 222 were not applicable to a case in which the former employer of a patent attorney now employed within a competitor organisation sought injunctive relief to restrain the current employer from acting by, or otherwise seeking assistance or advice from, the patent attorney in relation to current litigation.”
WLR Daily, 31st May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The principles established in Prince Jefri Bolkiah v KPMG (A firm) [1999] 2 AC 222 were not applicable to a case in which the former employer of a patent attorney now employed within a competitor organisation sought injunctive relief to restrain the current employer from acting by, or otherwise seeking assistance or advice from, the patent attorney in relation to current litigation.”
WLR Daily, 31st May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A group of Tamil asylum seekers who were meant to have been deported back to Sri Lanka this afternoon have been given a last minute reprieve after lawyers managed to persuade a court that they were at a credible risk of torture should they be returned.”
The Independent, 31st May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Where a commercial contract contained a choice of law clause exclusively in favour of one country and a jurisdiction clause giving the courts of the same country exclusive jurisdiction, but an arbitration clause by which the seat of the arbitration was to be in a different country, the issue of the proper law of the arbitration clause was a matter of contractual interpretation. The proper law depended on all the terms of the particular contract, when read in the light of the surrounding circumstances and commercial common sense.”
WLR Daily, 16th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Prison officers staging pension protest meetings have been told they face the threat of a high court injunction because they are banned from taking industrial action.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Les Laboratoires Servier and another v Apotex Inc and others [2012] EWCA Civ 593; [2012] WLR (D) 138
“The court was able to take into account a wide range of considerations in order to ensure that the ex turpi causa defence only applied where it was a just and proportionate response to the illegality in question. Although a party claiming compensation on a cross-undertaking in damages for lost sales of products the manufacture of which infringed a foreign patent was relying on an unlawful act sufficiently causative of its claim to engage the defence in principle, the defence did not apply where the party had believed reasonably and in good faith that the patent was invalid, and the illegality was recognised by making a deduction in the assessment of damages for the amount which the foreign court would have awarded in patent infringement proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Transport for London (TfL) have succeeded in their High Court application for an injunction restraining Addison Lee Taxis from encouraging drivers to use London bus lanes. Mr Justice Eder ruled that the injunction would not breach Addison Lee Chairman John Griffin’s free expression rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The High Court has lifted an injunction preventing the removal of the last anti-war protest tent near the Houses of Parliament.”
The Independent, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
A local authority and others v L: [2012] EWCA Civ 253; [2012] WLR (D) 101
“The High Court’s inherent jurisdiction to protect vulnerable adults had survived the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Thus the court could act where an adult’s capacity to make decisions for herself was overborne by circumstances such as undue influence or duress which were not covered by the Act.”
WLR Daily, 28th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A businessman has failed in his High Court bid to prevent his wife being told of the birth of his twins from a secret relationship.”
BBC News, 28th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A student who made racially offensive comments about footballer Fabrice Muamba on Twitter has been jailed for 56 days – the latest case where a comment made on social media has landed someone in court.”
BBC News, 28th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“New legislation should be introduced to force search engines to delete privacy-invasive material from search indexes if the companies do not take action voluntarily, a committee of MPs has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Parliament should not introduce a new privacy law, even in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, a report says.”
BBC News, 27th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“High court privacy injunctions have been given a clean bill of health by a special committee of MPs and peers which were set up in the fallout of the Ryan Giggs gagging order.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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