Results: 100

• In re Cape plc

  07 Jun 2005 [2006] EWHC 1316 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 109; [2006] 3 All ER 1222; [2007] 2 BCLC 546; The Times, 5 July 2006, Ch D (David Richards J)

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  COMPANY — Scheme of arrangement — Sanction of court
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  COMPANY — Scheme of arrangement — Sanction of court — Companies proposing scheme to provide settlements for asbestos claims over long period of time — Scheme allowing for future amendment of terms — Whether court having jurisdiction to sanction scheme — Whether unlawfully excluding or restricting companies' liability for death or personal injury — Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, s 2(1) — Companies Act 1985 (as amended by Insolvency Act 1985, s 109(1), Sch 6, para 11), s 425(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Customs and Excise Comrs v Royal Bank of Scotland plc (Oval 1742 Ltd, In re)

  [2007] EWCA Civ 1262; [2008] Bus LR 1213, CA

  06 Nov 2006 [2006] EWHC 2813 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 474, Ch D

  COMPANY — Debenture — Fixed or floating charge
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  COMPANY — Debenture — Fixed or floating charge — Company selling business and assets — Company subsequently going into liquidation — Consideration for assets paid to debenture holder both before and after date of liquidation — Company's solicitors making undertakings to debenture holder in relation to payments — Debenture holder releasing charge after receiving payment — Whether preferential creditors payable in priority to debenture holder — Whether payments subject to floating charge — Whether debenture holder “taking possession” of property comprised in charge — Companies Act 1985, s 196 (as substituted by Insolvency Act 1986, s 439(1), Sch 13, Pt I) — Insolvency Act 1986, s 175

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Dyson Ltd v Registrar of Trade Marks

  15 May 2003 [2003] EWHC 1062 (Ch); [2003] 1 WLR 2406, Ch D

  27 Jan 2007 (Case C-321/03); EU:C:2007:51; [2007] Bus LR 787, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 17.
  TRADE MARK — Registration — Practice

  TRADE MARK — Registration — Shape of goods
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  TRADE MARK — Registration — Practice — Registrar objecting to registration of mark following ex parte hearing — Hearing officer upholding decision — Applicant appealing to court — Whether appeal to court by way of rehearing — Trade Marks Act 1994, s 76 — CPR r 52.11(1)

  TRADE MARK — Registration — Shape of goods — “Sign” — Application to register part of external appearance of bagless vacuum cleaner as trade mark — Application accompanied by image taken to represent example of mark applied for — Whether “sign” — Whether capable of constituting trade mark — Council Directive 89/104/EEC, art 2

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Proform Sports Management Ltd v Proactive Sports Management Ltd

  26 Jul 2006 [2006] EWHC 2903 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 93; [2007] 1 All ER (Comm) 356; [2007] 1 All ER 542, Ch D

  TORT — Cause of action — Procuring breach of contract
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  TORT — Cause of action — Procuring breach of contract — Child footballer entering into representation agreement with claimants — Claimants bringing action against defendants for unlawful interference with, or procuring breach of, agreement — Whether liability if contract voidable — Whether representation agreement analogous to contract of apprenticeship, education and service — Whether contract voidable by child

  4 Case(s) considered

• Microsoft Corpn v McDonald (trading as Bizads)

  12 Dec 2006 [2006] EWHC 3410 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 548, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  MARKETING — Electronic communications — Unsolicited transmission of
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  MARKETING — Electronic communications — Unsolicited transmission of — Statutory requirement that addressee give consent before being sent marketing e-mails — Defendant offering lists of e-mail addresses for sale incorrectly representing addressees consenting — Claimant e-mail provider bringing action — Whether claimant within class of persons for whose benefit consent requirement imposed — Whether entitled to injunction preventing further breaches of requirement — Whether defendant “instigating” purchasers of lists of addresses to transmit unsolicited marketing communications — Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, regs 22, 30

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Golden Strait Corpn v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha (The Golden Victory)

  18 Oct 2005 [2005] EWHC 161 (Comm); [2006] 1 WLR 533; [2005] 1 All ER (Comm) 467; [2006] 1 All ER (Comm) 235; [2005] 1 Lloyd's Rep 443; [2005] 2 Lloyd's Rep 747, CA

  28 Mar 2007 [2007] UKHL 12; [2007] 2 AC 353; [2007] 2 WLR 691; [2007] Bus LR 997; [2007] 3 All ER 1; [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 97; [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 164, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 6 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 95.
  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Repudiation
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  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Repudiation — Repudiation of long-term charterparty where market available — Charterparty containing war clause — Charterers repudiating charterparty — War breaking out after repudiation but before end of charter period — Whether damages recoverable by shipowner to be assessed as at date of repudiation or to take actual outbreak of war into account

  12 Case(s) considered

• Score Draw Ltd v Finch

  09 Mar 2007 [2007] EWHC 462 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 864, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  TRADE MARK — Registration — Signs capable of constituting trade marks
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  TRADE MARK — Registration — Signs capable of constituting trade marks — Sporting emblem previously used in non trade mark manner — Whether previous use preventing registration as trade mark — Whether mark distinctive of trade origin — Trade Marks Act 1994, s 3(1)(b)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re Lune Metal Products Ltd

  14 Dec 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1720; [2007] Bus LR 589; [2007] 2 BCLC 746; [2007] BCC 217; The Times, 27 December 2006, CA (Tuckey, Carnwath, Neuberger LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 13.
  INSOLVENCY — Administrator — Powers
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  INSOLVENCY — Administrator — Powers — Distribution — Administrators applying to court to sanction distribution to creditors — Whether administrators having power to make distribution — Whether court having power to sanction distribution — Insolvency Act 1986, ss 8(3), 14(3), 18(3), Sch 1

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Boehringer Ingelheim KG v Swingward Ltd (No 2)

  17 Jun 2004 [2004] EWCA Civ 757 {0} {1}, CA (Kennedy, Clarke and Jacob LJJ)

  26 Apr 2007 (Case C-348/04); EU:C:2007:249; [2007] Bus LR 1100; [2008] All ER (EC) 411; [2007] ECR I-3391, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 12.
  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Exhaustion
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  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Exhaustion — Parallel importation — Conditions excluding proprietor's right to oppose commercialisation of repackaged imported pharmaceutical goods — Whether applicable to overstickering of goods — Operation and burden of proving existence of conditions — Consequences of parallel importer's failure to give proprietor advance notice of repackaging — Council Directive 89/104/EEC (as amended by Agreement on European Area), art 7(2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered
• Rhone-Poulenc Rorer International Holdings Inc v Yeda Research and Development Co Ltd (Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks intervening)

  31 Jul 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1094; [2007] Bus LR 1, CA

  24 Oct 2007 [2007] UKHL 43; [2007] Bus LR 1796; [2008] 1 All ER 425, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 12.
  PATENT — Entitlement reference — Amendment
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  PATENT — Entitlement reference — Amendment — Referrer claiming joint ownership of patent with patentee — Subsequently seeking to amend reference to add alternative claim of sole ownership — Whether amendment constituting new claim made outside time limit — Whether amendment time-barred — Patents Act 1977, ss 37(5), 130(7) (as amended by Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, ss 295, 303, Sch 5, para 9, Sch 8) — Convention for the European Patent for the Common Market, Luxembourg 1975 (EC 18 (1976)), art 23 (as amended by Council Agreement 89/695/EEC)

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  2 International Agreements considered