“Stella McCartney’s fashion house would suffer more than a small cosmetics company if its demand for an interim injunction was granted, the High Court has said. McCartney has won the right to use ‘nude’ in her perfume name until a full trial is heard.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th August 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A heritage group has started a legal challenge to try to prevent a Sikh temple in Kent from being demolished.”
BBC News, 20th August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Metrobus Ltd v Unite the Union [2009] EWCA Civ 829; [2009] WLR (D) 279
“Where an employer sought an injunction to restrain a strike, a union’s failure to comply with its obligation under s 231A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to inform the employer as soon as reasonably practicable of the result of the ballot could justify the grant of an injunction restraining the strike. S 231A, and also ss 226 and 234A, were not disproportionate restrictions on the rights of association conferred by art 11 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The obligations under those sections could not be regarded as onerous so that they could be said to constitute a serious impediment on a union’s ability to call a strike.”
WLR Daily, 3rd August 2009
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“There was no presumption that the prosecution of foreign litigation in parallel with litigation in England pursuant to a non-exclusive jurisdiction clause was of itself vexatious and oppressive unless exceptional circumstances could be shown to justify it.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2009
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“District judge Araba Obadai has found herself on the other side of the court for the last 18 months over a long-running feud with her neighbour over his Doberman dogs.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Bloom and Others v Harms Offshore AHT “Taurus” and “Magnus” GmbH and Co KG
Court of Appeal
“Where creditors of a company in administration had attached property owned by that company in a foreign jurisdiction, the courts had power, in some circumstances, to grant injunctive relief affecting procedures in that foreign jurisdiction.”
The Times, 10th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An Iranian millionaire and business associate of David Mills, the estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, has had his assets frozen by the High Court as part of a claim that he and his company received £6.2m in unauthorised fees and payments from a Welsh steel mill which collapsed with the loss of more than 300 jobs.”
The Independent, 7th July 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Copies of a book by Scotland Yard’s former anti-terrorism chief were hastily removed from bookstore shelves yesterday after the Attorney-General obtained a last-minute injunction.”
The Times, 3rd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
SmithKline Beecham plc and others v Avery and others [2009] EWHC 1488 (QB); [2009] WLR (D) 218
“The word ‘person’ in section 1(1A)(c) Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is not limited to individuals and includes a body corporate, so a company may apply for an injunction under section 3A on grounds of unlawful harassment of its employees and others.”
WLR Daily, 30th June 2009
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“Where creditors had, in a foreign jurisdiction, attached certain property owned by a company in administration, the comity owed by the courts of different jurisdictions to each other would normally make it inappropriate for the municipal courts to grant injunctive relief affecting procedures in a court of foreign jurisdiction. However, due regard to certain relevant factors, such as the conduct of the creditors against whom the injunction was sought and the circumstances of the attachment, might justify the grant of an injunction.”
WLR Daily, 29th June 2009
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Napier and another v Pressdram Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 443; [2009] WLR (D) 172
“Where a complainant made a complaint against his solicitor to the Law Society the complainant owed no duty of confidentiality to the solicitor or his firm not to reveal to others the result of the adjudication where the subject matter underlying the adjudication contained no private information concerning the solicitor. The procedural nature of the investigation itself did not give rise to a duty of confidentiality.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2009
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“Thousands of disciplinary rulings against lawyers accused of misconduct can be publicised after one of Britain’s leading solicitors lost a battle in the Court of Appeal to keep his own case under wraps.”
The Times, 21st May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
National Commercial Bank Jamaica Ltd v Olint Corporation Ltd
Privy Council
A bank was entitled to close the accounts of a customer company against which allegations of fraud had been made. The Privy Council so held in giving reasons for having allowed, on January 26, 2009, an appeal by National Commercial Bank Jamaica Ltd against the Court of Appeal of Jamaica which in allowing an appeal by Olint Corp Ltd from Mr Justice Jones, it granted the company injunctions until trial restraining the bank from closing its accounts.
The Times, 6th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Singer Amy Winehouse has fought back against paparazzi photographers keen to record every aspect of her troubled private life, winning a high court anti-harassment injunction and posting the ruling outside her new home in the London suburbs.”
The Guardian, 1st May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An attempt to stop new footage being broadcast of the moments leading up to the death of Ian Tomlinson has failed.”
BBC News, 21st April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd
Court of Appeal
“An injunction granted in a general challenge by the Office of Fair Trading against the unfairness of certain clauses in an estate agent’s standard terms could extend to the continuing use of unfair terms in an existing contract.”
The Times, 10th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 288; [2009] WLR (D) 128
“An injunction granted in a general challenge by the Office of Fair Trading against the unfairness of certain clauses in an estate agent’s standard terms could extend to the continuing use of unfair terms in an existing contract.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A high court judge is due to rule today on Barclays’ attempt to ban the Guardian from publishing whistleblower documents about the bank’s tax avoidance schemes.”
The Guardian, 19th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
United States Securities and Exchange Commission v Manterfield
Court of Appeal
“A regulatory body in the United States seeking to enforce disgorgement of proceeds of alleged fraud could be granted a freezing order over assets in the United Kingdom.”
The Times, 18th March 2009
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“Barclays Capital will return to court tomorrow in a bid to prevent the publication of leaked documents that allegedly detail how the bank avoided paying hundreds of millions of pounds in tax.”
The Times, 17th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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