NIPC Law

Hippodrome de Deauville - Clairefontaine / Attribution   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Lewison, Arnold and Phillips)    The Racing Partnership Ltd and others v Sports Information Services Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 1300 (9 Oct 2020) This was an appeal from Mr Justice Zacaroli's judgment in  The Racing Partnership Ltd and others v Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 1156 (Ch), [2019] 3 WLR 779, [2019] WLR(D) 492, [2020] Ch 289. The claimants ("TRP") had sued Sports Information Services Ltd ("SIS") and others for copyright and database right infringement, breach of confidence, breach of contract and conspiracy.  Mr Justice Zacaroli dismissed all the claims against SIS except the action for breach of confidence.  SIS appealed to the Court of Appeal against the finding of breach of confidence.  TRP cross-appealed against the dismissal of its claim for conspiracy,  The appeal was heard between 7 to 9 July 2020 and judgment ...

Manchester Civil Justice Centre Author Skipp88   Copyright waived by author Source Wikipedia    Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts, Manchester (Mr Justice Snowdon, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Manchester)  Affinity Workforce Solutions Ltd v McCann and others   [2019] EWHC 2829 (Ch) I cut my teeth doing cases like this when Andrew Blackett-Ord was the Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Manchester and his deputies were James Fitzhugh and Michale O'Donoghue. They used to tour the North of England and on motion days their courts were packed.  My opponents included Northern Circuit legends like Bertie Maddocks and Nigel Howarth who also became circuit judges sitting in the High Court. I learned a lot from doing this sort of work. This was an application by Affinity Workforce Solutions Ltd ("Affinity") for interim injunctions to restrain five of its former employees from taking any part in the business ...

"So what is intellectual property ?" That is a question that I have been asked many times. By accountants and bank managers, clerks of factory chambers, instructing solicitors and even by fellow members of the Bar. Well now the Court of Appeal has provided an answer of sorts.   In  Coogan v News Group Newspapers Ltd and Another [2012] EWCA Civ 48 (1 Feb 2012) the question was whether mobile telephone voice mail messages were "intellectual property" for the purpose of s.72 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and the Court of Appeal held that they were. The question arose in the context of the privilege against self-incrimination. Unlike the United States which safeguards this privilege by the Fifth Amendment of its Constitution, it subsists at common law (see Blunt v Park Lane Hotel Ltd [1942] 2 KB 253) and is reinforced by s.14 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968. But there are loads of exceptions to this rule as the Master of the Rolls noted at paragraph [16] of his ...