Results: 99

• O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd

  20 Oct 2006 [2006] EWHC 2562 (QB); [2007] 1 WLR 757, QBD (Teare J)

  09 Oct 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 966; [2008] 1 WLR 1188; [2008] Bus LR 993, CA

  11 Jun 2008 (Ref to ECJ) [2008] UKHL 34; [2008] 4 All ER 881, HL(E)

  26 May 2010 [2010] UKSC 23; [2010] 1 WLR 1412; [2010] Bus LR 1381; [2010] 4 All ER 1; [2010] WLR (D) 137; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  PRACTICE — Parties — Substitution
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  PRACTICE — Parties — Substitution — Action brought against wrongly identified manufacturer — Whether power to allow substitution of defendant after expiry of long-stop ten-year period — Whether power existing where party wrongly identified — Whether substitution “necessary” — Whether substitution to be allowed — Limitation Act 1980, ss 11A(3) (as inserted by Consumer Protection Act 1987, s 6(6), Sch 1, para 1), 35(4)(5)(6) — CPR r 19.5(2)(3) — Council Directive 85/374/EEC, art 11

  PRACTICE — Parties — Substitution — Statutory right to sue producer of defective product — Right enacted in implementation of European Directive providing for long-stop period of ten years after product put into circulation — Claim alleging defective vaccine manufactured by French company but distributed by wholly-owned United Kingdom subsidiary — Action brought within period against distributor — Application after expiry of period for substitution of manufacturer as defendant — Court of Justice ruling that substitution of party outside limitation period permissible only when act of “putting into circulation of the product” determined by parent of wholly-owned supplier subsidiary sued within time limit — Whether determination in question act of transferring product to subsidiary or when to be put into circulation by supplier — Whether substitution to be allowed — Limitation Act 1980, s 35(4)(5)(6) — CPR r 19.5(2)(3) — Council Directive 85/374/EEC, art 11

  7 Case(s) considered

  3 Words & Phrases considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

  3 Statutes considered

  2 Statutory Instruments considered
• Stone & Rolls Ltd v Moore Stephens

  27 Jul 2007 [2007] EWHC 1826 (Comm); [2008] Bus LR 304, QBD

  18 Jun 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 644; [2009] AC 1391; [2008] 3 WLR 1146; [2008] Bus LR 1579; [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 319, CA

  30 Oct 2008 (pet all) [2009] Bus LR 71, HL(E)

  30 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 39; [2009] AC 1391; [2009] 3 WLR 455; [2009] Bus LR 1356; [2009] 4 All ER 431; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 125; [2009] 2 Lloyd's Rep 537; [2009] WLR (D) 277, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 5 neutral; 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 43.
  COMPANY — Fraud — Knowledge of company
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  COMPANY — Fraud — Knowledge of company — Company used as vehicle to procure funds from bank for sham commercial transactions — Bank's successful action against company and director resulting in company's insolvency — Company's claim for damages for auditors' failure to detect fraud — Whether actions of fraudster to be attributed to company — Whether defence of ex turpi causa available to auditors — Whether defence overridden by fact that fraud relied on very thing auditors engaged to prevent

  14 Case(s) considered

• Fisher v Brooker

  20 Dec 2006 [2006] EWHC 3239 (Ch); [2007] EMLR 256; [2007] FSR 255, Ch D (Blackburne J)

  04 Apr 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 287; [2008] Bus LR 1123, CA

  05 Nov 2008 (pet all) [2009] Bus LR 95, HL(E)

  30 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 41; [2009] 1 WLR 1764; [2009] Bus LR 1334; [2009] 4 All ER 789; [2009] WLR (D) 274, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 46.
  COPYRIGHT — Title to — Musical work

  ESTOPPEL — Conduct, by — Proprietary estoppel
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  COPYRIGHT — Title to — Musical work — Popular song composed by first defendant and released as successful record containing claimant's distinctive organ solo and variation — Claim for joint authorship and ownership of copyright brought 38 years later — Whether joint authorship established — Whether entitlement to share of copyright — Whether equitable defences of acquiescence and laches available — Whether revocation of implied licence

  ESTOPPEL — Conduct, by — Proprietary estoppel — Popular song composed by first defendant and released as successful record containing claimant's distinctive organ solo and variation — Claim for joint authorship and ownership of copyright brought 38 years later — Joint authorship established — Whether claimant's acquiescence giving rise to proprietary estoppel — Whether equitable defences of acquiescence and laches available — Whether claimant entitled to equitable relief

  4 Case(s) considered

• TRM Copy Centres (UK) Ltd v Lanwall Services Ltd

  [2008] EWCA Civ 382; [2008] Bus LR 1231; [2008] 2 All ER (Comm) 1021; [2008] 4 All ER 608; [2008] 2 All ER(Comm) 1021, CA

  17 Jun 2009 (pet all) [2009] UKHL 35; [2009] 1 WLR 1375; [2009] Bus LR 1069; [2009] Bus LR 95; [2009] 4 All ER 33; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 1098; [2009] WLR (D) 190; [2009] 2 Lloyd's Rep 332, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Agreement
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  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Agreement — Agreement for installation of photocopier in retail premises for use by customers — Retailer accounting for sums collected from customers but making no other payment — Whether bailment by way of hire — Whether “consumer hire agreement” — Consumer Credit Act 1974, s 15 (as amended by Consumer Credit (Increase of Monetary Limits) Order 1983, Sch, Pt II, art 4)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

• McGlinn v Waltham Contractors Ltd (No 3)

  21 Feb 2007 [2007] EWHC 149 (TCC); [2008] Bus LR 233, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  BUILDING — Architect — Duty to inspect

  BUILDING — Contract — Damages
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  BUILDING — Architect — Duty to inspect — Claimant engaging architects in construction of house — Architects inspecting works once a month at time of site meetings — Whether inspection adequate — Whether architects in breach of duty to inspect

  BUILDING — Contract — Damages — Claimant engaging architects and engineers in construction of house — Architects and engineers found to be partially liable for numerous defects — Measure of damages for reinstatement — Whether damages to be assessed by reference to cost of demolition and rebuilding or cost of repair

  5 Case(s) 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

• CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA

  14 Sep 2007 [2007] EWHC 2070 (Comm); [2008] 1 All ER (Comm) 192; [2008] 1 Lloyd's Rep 179, KBD

  22 Jul 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 856; [2008] Bus LR 1729; [2009] 2 All ER (Comm) 25; [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 526, CA

  26 Nov 2008 (pet dis) [2009] Bus LR 95, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CONTRACT — Frustration — Sale of goods
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  CONTRACT — Frustration — Sale of goods — Defendant contracting in unqualified terms to supply cargo of cement f o b claimant's vessel in Far East — Defendant making arrangements with local suppliers to provide cargo — Suppliers choosing not to make cargo available owing to commercial pressure applied by another supplier — Defendant having no other source of cement in Far East — Whether suppliers' failure to make goods available constituting frustrating event

  3 Case(s) considered
• Arrow Generics Ltd v Merck & Co Inc

  31 Jul 2007 [2007] EWHC 1900 (Pat); [2008] Bus LR 487, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 10.
  PATENT — European patent — Application

  PATENT — European patent — Validity
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  PATENT — European patent — Application — European Patent Office revoking defendant's patent — Claimant introducing generic product — Defendant making divisional applications carved from original patent — EPO allowing divisionals covering claimant's generic product to proceed — Claimant seeking declaration that own product obvious at priority date — Whether relief precluded by statutory provision restricting challenges to validity of patents — Whether jurisdiction to grant relief — Patents Act 1977, s 74

  PATENT — European patent — Validity — Defendant making divisional application — European Patent Office granting patent with United Kingdom designation — Defendant withdrawing designation before grant mentioned in Bulletin — Grant erroneously mentioned with United Kingdom designation — Whether patent extending to United Kingdom — Whether jurisdiction to declare invalid — Convention on the Grant of European Patents (1978), arts 79(3), 97(4)

  3 Case(s) considered
• Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior SNC v Empresa de Telecommunicaciones de Cuba SA (Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior SNC v Empresa de Telecommunicaciones de Cuba SA (British Telecommunications plc intervening))

  24 Jan 2007 [2007] EWHC 19 (Comm); [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 46, QBD (David Steel J)

  04 Jul 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 662; [2008] 1 WLR 1936; [2008] Bus LR 1265; [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 1093; [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 484; [2007] 2 CLC 34, CA (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers CJ, Tuckey and Jacob LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 16.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Provisional and protective measures

  INJUNCTION — Freezing order — Jurisdiction
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Provisional and protective measures — Worldwide freezing order — Foreign judgment registered in England — Worldwide freezing order to assist enforcement of foreign judgment — Whether court having jurisdiction to grant — Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, art 47

  INJUNCTION — Freezing order — Jurisdiction — Claimant seeking domestic and worldwide injunctions to enforce foreign judgment — Whether jurisdiction to grant worldwide order pursuant to Council Regulation — Whether inexpedient in circumstances to grant order pursuant to domestic legislation — Whether requirement for domestic order to include undertaking as to third party losses — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, s 25(2) (as amended by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991, s 3, Sch 2, para 12) — Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, art 47

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

• Sumukan Ltd v Commonwealth Secretariat (No 2)

  14 Feb 2007 [2007] EWHC 188 (Comm); [2007] 1 Lloyd's Rep 370, KBD

  11 Nov 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 1148; [2008] Bus LR 858; [2008] 2 All ER (Comm) 175; [2008] 1 Lloyd's Rep 40, CA

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction
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  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction — Dispute between parties referred to tribunal established under defendant's rules — Whether president of tribunal validly appointed — Whether tribunal lacking substantive jurisdiction — Whether failure to raise objections before tribunal precluding their being raised before court — Arbitration Act 1996, ss 67, 73

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered