“Media law specialists Carter-Ruck has obtained a legal injunction from the high court to protect popstar Lily Allen from harassment by two paparazzi agencies, Big Pictures and Matrix Photos.”
The Guardian, 16th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Allianz SpA and Another v West Tankers Inc
Court of Justice of the European Communities
“It was not open to a court in one European Union member state to order a party in a case before it to discontinue proceedings begun by that party in another member state on the ground that the parties had agreed to refer any disputes between them to arbitration in the first state.”
The Times, 13th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Allianz SpA and another v West Tankers Inc (Case C-185/07); [2009] WLR (D) 44
“It was incompatible with Regulation 44/2001 for a court of an EC member state to make an order to restrain a person from commencing or continuing proceedings before the courts of another member state on the ground that such proceedings would be contrary to an arbitration agreement.”
WLR Daily, 11th February 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“An English court cannot order someone not to take action in an Italian court in a civil matter even though there was an agreement between the companies involved to settle disputes through arbitration in London, the ECJ has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th February 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Lawyers are taking the government to court today over the way two Iraqi men were sent for trial in Baghdad despite last-minute injunctions ordering them to remain in British custody.”
The Guardian, 12th January 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Birmingham City Council v Shafi and another [2008] EWCA Civ 1186; [2008] WLR (D) 341
“Where a council sought an injunction under s 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 in circumstances in which an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) would be available, the court should not, save in an exceptional case, grant the injunction but leave the council to seek an ASBO in the magistrates’ court.”
WLR Daily, 31st October 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“The Court of Appeal has ruled the government should be allowed to freeze the assets of suspected terrorists.”
BBC News, 30th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Civil injunctions cannot be used against gangs in Birmingham, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
BBC News, 30th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
ETI Euro Telecom International NV v Republic of Bolivia and Another
Court of Appeal
“International investment dispute arbitrations, not subject to any national law, were not legal proceedings that enabled an English court to grant injunctive relief to one party against the moneys of another in England pending the outcome of the arbitration.”
The Times, 9th October 2008
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Field Common Ltd v Elmbridge Borough Council [2008] EWHC 2079 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 298
“The correct approach to the assessment of damages on a landowner’s claim against a council in respect of its tenants’ trespasses was the hypothetical negotiation approach, based on what the council would have paid on a hypothetical negotiation between the claimant and the council for the grant to the council of the necessary rights.”
WLR Daily, 1st September 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A man has been banned by the courts from visiting his fiancée at her home after neighbours complained about the couple’s noisy sex sessions.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“International arbitration proceedings were not ‘proceedings’ for the purpose of s 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 to enable the English court to grant interim relief to preserve the outcome of the arbitration proceedings. Where injunctive relief was sought in the English court, the claimant should deal both with state immunity from the adjudicative jurisdiction of the court and with state immunity from enforcement. The court should consider and decide the question of state immunity at as early a stage on the proceedings as practicable.”
WLR Daily, 29th July 2008
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“The assets of the fake canoe death couple, John and Anne Darwin, have been frozen in a first step towards retrieving the £250,000 they conned out of insurance companies, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A farmer has vowed that he will continue his battle to force supermarket chain Tesco to remove his photograph from its egg boxes.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and Another (No 3)
Court of Appeal
“The English court had an ancillary power to grant an injunction restraining a foreign defendant, who had submitted to the court’s jurisdiction and against whom judgment had been awarded, from continuing proceedings abroad which attempted to relitigate issues determined in the English court.”
The Times, 25th June 2008
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“The English court had power over persons properly subject to its in personam jurisdiction to make ancillary orders in protection of its jurisdiction and its processes, including the integrity of its judgments. The power was a discretionary one to be exercised in accordance with the requirements of international comity.”
WLR Daily, 9th June 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“An illegal landbanking scheme which sold plots of land to investors with the promise of big profits has had its assets frozen following action by the City watchdog.”
The Guardian, 4th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
A, K, M, Q and G v HM Treasury
Queen’s Bench Division
“Orders in Council, made purportedly to give effect to United Nations resolutions freezing the assets of terrorist organisations and their adherents, were to be quashed since, among other faults, they had been improperly made outside the parliamentary process and were bad as creating criminal law of insufficient certainty.”
The Times, 5th May 2008
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“Anti-terrorism legislation was condemned as poorly thought-out by a senior High Court judge yesterday as he declared that the Treasury’s powers to freeze suspects’ bank accounts were unlawful.”
The Times, 25th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Rules imposed under UN laws to enable the freezing of terror suspects’ assets are not lawful because they ‘bypassed’ Parliament, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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