NIPC Law

Cyrillic Script Monument in Antarctica Author Inoceramid Bivalves   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Wikimedia Comm ons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Moylan, Coulson and Arnold)   Lish v The Northern Block Ltd and another [2026] EWCA Civ 497 (27 April 2026) This was an appeal by the claimant, Mariya Vasiliyevna Lish, against the order of David Stone on 22 Aug 2025 in which he struck out two of her claims as an abuse of process of the court for the reasons given in his judgment (see  Lish v The Northern Block Ltd and Another [2025] EWHC 2172 (Ch) 23 Aug 2025).   I discussed that judgment in  Copyright - Lish v The Northern Block Ltd.   on 30 Aug 2025. Background The   first   defendant, The Northern Block ("TNB"), was a type foundry which supplied typefaces or fonts in various alphabets to graphic designers, printers, manufacturers and others.  It was founded by the second defendant, Jonathan Hill. Mrs Lish was a typeface des...

Saints Cyril and Methodius, Creators of the Glagolitic Alphabet, Forerunner of Cyrillic Author Z Zograf  Public Domain  Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (David Stone)  Lish v The Northern Block Ltd and Another [2025] EWHC 2172 (Ch) (22 Aug 2025) This was an application by the defendants, The Northern Block Ltd.  and Jonathan Hill, its director and shareholder, for the striking out and/or summary judgment in claims by Mariya Vasilyevna Lish for breach of contract, breach of obligations following acceptance of a CPR Part 36 offer and copyright infringement.  The application was heard by Mr David Stone sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court on 15 July 2025. He delivered judgment in  Lish v The Northern Block Ltd and Another  [2025] EWHC 2172 (Ch) on 22 Aug 2025.  He dismissed the application for summary judgment but allowed the strikeout applications.  The Background Northern Block is a type foundry which su...