NIPC Law

Ocado Van Author  Tomjhpage   Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0   Source    Wikimedia   J ane Lambert Court of Appeal (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lord Justice Nugee) AutoStore Technology AS v Ocado Group Plc and other [ 2021] EWCA Civ 1003 (7 July 2021) This was an appeal by Ocado Plc, its subsidiaries and Tharsus Group Ltd from the decision of Judge Hacon in  Autostore Technology AS v Ocado Group Plc and others [2021] EWHC 1614 (Pat) (11 June 2021) not to restrain AutoStore Technology AS from disclosing to the US International Trade Commission a document marked "CONFIDENTIAL & WITHOUT PREJUDICE PROVIDED FOR PURPOSES OF SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS ONLY." I discussed Judge Hacon's decision in  Interim Injunctions - AutoStore Technology AS v Ocado Group Plc   on 14 July 2021,  I explained the reason for the dispute as follows: "In the proceedings before the Commission, AutoSrore alleged that Ocado had infringed several ...

Despite 300 years of political union and until recently a common legislature there remain striking differences between the laws of Scotland and those of the rest of the UK. Occasionally these come to light. A case that highlights them dramatically came before M Wise QC sitting as a temporary (presumably deputy) judge on Friday. This was the sort of case that still comes before chancery interim applications judges from time to time and before Universal Thermosensors Ltd v Hibben [1992] 1 WLR 840 was commonplace. A high tech company engaged in dimensional control and laser scanning services to the oil and gas industries suspected that one of its former directors had made off with some of its trade secrets. It took steps to recover them. Had the case happened in England the employer might have applied for a search order under CPR Part 25 . In Scotland the equivalent procedure appears to be to petition for the appointment of a silk as a "Commissioner" to search for and take al...