Category: injunctions

Lichter & Schwarz (a Partnership) v Rubin – Times Law Reports

Posted April 18th, 2008 in freezing injunctions, law reports by sally

Lichter & Schwarz (a Partnership) v Rubin

Chancery Division

“When applying for an interim order directing a party to provide information about relevant property or assets which were, or could be the subject of an application for a freezing injunction, it was necessary to show only that there was a reasonable possibility, based on credible evidence, that a freezing injunction would be applied for.”

The Times, 18th April 2008

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Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary Ltd and Others v Kingston upon Thames Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted April 18th, 2008 in injunctions, law reports, rights of way, roads by sally

Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary Ltd and Others v Kingston upon Thames Borough Council

Chancery Division

“The introduction by Kingston upon Thames Borough Council of an unmanned code-operated barrier to control entry to Warren Road, a private road that provided access from a public road to the Coombe Estate, would amount to a substantial interference with the statutory rights of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary Ltd, Holy Cross Sisters Trustees Inc, Rokeby Educational Trust Ltd, who run three schools, and Unilever plc, who run a training centre, to use the relevant roads for going to or leaving their premises.”

The Times, 18th April 2008

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Lichter & Schwarz (a partnership) v Rubin – WLR Daily

Posted March 25th, 2008 in disclosure, freezing injunctions, law reports by sally

Lichter & Schwarz (a partnership) v Rubin [2008] EWHC 450 (Ch D); [2008] WLR (D) 93

“On an interim application for the disclosure of ‘information about relevant property or assets which are or may be the subject of an application for a freezing injunction’ pursuant to CPR r 25.1(1)(g), it was only necessary to show that a freezing order could be applied for and whether or not that application would be successful was not a matter on which the court could form a view at that stage; it need only be satisfied that there were credible grounds for making an application if so advised.”

WLR Daily, 20th March 2008

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Simon Mann in legal row over interview – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 10th, 2008 in conspiracy, injunctions, media, news by sally

“A legal wrangle has broken out over an interview with Simon Mann, the Old Etonian and former SAS officer who is in prison in Equatorial Guinea on charges of plotting a coup in the oil-rich African country.”

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Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2008

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Court gags ex-SAS man who made torture claims – The Guardian

Posted February 29th, 2008 in armed forces, injunctions, Iraq, news, torture by sally

“A former SAS soldier was served with a high court order yesterday preventing him from making fresh disclosures about how hundreds of Iraqis and Afghans captured by British and American special forces were rendered to prisons where they faced torture.”

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The Guardian, 29th February 2008

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In re Trinity Mirror plc and others – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2008 in anonymity, injunctions, law reports, media by sally

In re Trinity Mirror plc and others [2008] EWCA Crim 50; [2008] WLR (D) 27

“There was no jurisdiction under s 45(4)of the Supreme Court Act 1981 to grant an injunction to restrain the publication of the name of a defendant or the nature of his convictions on the basis that such identification would harm the defendant’s children, who were neither witnesses in the proceedings nor victims of his offences, since such an order was not incidental to the defendant’s trial, conviction and sentence.”

WLR Daily, 5th February 2008

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Royal Mail wins court injunction to stop strikes planned for next week – The Guardian

Posted October 15th, 2007 in industrial action, injunctions, news, postal service by sally

“Royal Mail last night won an high court ruling outlawing two one-day strikes planned by postal workers next week.”

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The Guardian, 13th October 2007

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Man jailed over Facebook message – Daily Telegraph

Posted October 4th, 2007 in harassment, injunctions, internet, news, sentencing by sally

“A husband banned from contacting his estranged wife was jailed after he inadvertently sent her a message on the social networking site Facebook.”

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Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2007

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‘Commercially unimportant’ copyright infringement punished by injunction – OUT-LAW.com

Posted August 31st, 2007 in computer programs, copyright, injunctions, news by sally

“A software developer responsible for a copyright infringement described even by the copyright owner as insignificant still broke the law, a court has ruled. An injunction has been served even though the infringer has stopped using the technology.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 31st August 2007

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Court rules against ‘illegal’ UK prison strike – Financial Times

Posted August 29th, 2007 in industrial action, injunctions, prison officers by sally

“Prison officers … defied a court injunction aimed at halting an illegal strike by thousands of warders across England and Wales. ”

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Financial Times, 29th August 2007

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The limits of protest – The Guardian

Posted August 14th, 2007 in demonstrations, injunctions, special report by sally

“Tim Lawson-Cruttenden is the Heathrow lawyer who took out an injunction against the climate camp protesters. What, he asks, is the role of protest in a free society, and how far should it go?”

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The Guardian, 14th August 2007

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Climate change protesters set up Heathrow camp – The Independent

Posted August 13th, 2007 in demonstrations, injunctions, news by sally

“Heathrow climate change activists have set up their protest camp two days early, after weeks of secrecy over the proposed site during which they fought a sweeping injunction against them.”

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The Independent, 13th August 2007

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Serial streaker avoids Asbo for golf stunt – The Guardian

Posted August 8th, 2007 in ASBOs, indecent exposure, injunctions, news by sally

“A serial streaker who ran in front of Tiger Woods with a toy squirrel covering his genitals and a golf ball clenched between his buttocks escaped an anti-social behaviour order today.”

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The Guaradian, 7th August 2007

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Misuse of an act designed to stop stalkers – The Independent

Posted August 7th, 2007 in harassment, injunctions, special report by sally

“Heathrow Airport Ltd applied for a wide-ranging injunction which, had they succeeded, could have banned five million people from the Piccadilly Line, large sections of the M4 and land surrounding Heathrow as well as the airport itself. It would have done so by making them subject to the provisions of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.”

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The Independent, 7th August 2007

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Court to rule on Heathrow protest – BBC News

Posted August 6th, 2007 in injunctions, news by sally

“The High Court is due to rule on whether airport operator BAA has won an injunction over a climate change protest at Heathrow.”

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BBC News, 6th August 2007

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How Heathrow’s lawyer has made a career of opposing right to protest – The Independent

Posted August 6th, 2007 in injunctions, solicitors, special report by sally

“To his many enemies, Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden is the establishment solicitor who gags their protests. To his clients, he is legal barbed wire – an expert who can hold back a rabble.”

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The Independent, 6th August 2007

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High Court confusion over exactly who BAA wants to ban from protesting at Heathrow – The Independent

Posted August 2nd, 2007 in injunctions, news by sally

“BAA suffered further embarrassment in its attempt to block a climate change demonstration at Heathrow, when a High Court judge admitted yesterday to being confused over exactly who the company wanted to ban from travelling to the airport.”

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The Independent, 2nd August 2007

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Airport ban ‘only for protesters’ – BBC News

Posted August 1st, 2007 in injunctions, news by sally

“Heathrow operator BAA has denied claims it is seeking to ban million people from using roads and railways near the London airport.”

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BBC News, 1st August 2007

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Catch-all Heathrow protest injunction could bar millions – The Guardian

Posted July 27th, 2007 in injunctions, news by sally

“Heathrow airport is targeting climate change activists with a sweeping injunction which could prevent members of the RSPB and the National Trust, plus millions more affiliated to environmental organisations, from attending a green protest.”

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The Guardian, 27th July 2007

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Samengo-Turner and others v. J & H Marsh & McLennan (Services) Ltd. and others – WLR Daily

Posted July 16th, 2007 in injunctions, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Samengo-Turner and others v. J & H March & McLennan (Services) Ltd. and others [2007] EWCA Civ 723 

“Where parallel employment-related proceedings were taking place in New York and London it was open to the court, in an appropriate case and where the terms of s 5 of Council Regulation 44/2001 were satisfied, to grant an anti-suit injunction restraining the New York proceedings.”

WLR Daily, 12th July 2007

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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