NIPC Law

Latvia from Space Author  S eaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE Public Domain   Source     Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold and Nugee and Lady Justice Falk) Playtech Software Ltd v Realtime SIA and another [2025] EWCA Civ 1472 (21 Nov 2025) This was an appeal by Realtime SIA ("Realtime") and Igors Veliks ("Mr Veliks") against Mr Justice Thompsell's order of 24 Jan 2025 dismissing their challenge to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales in respect of claims for alleged breach of confidence and copyright infringement made by  Playtech Software Ltd ("Playtech") for the reasons given in his judgment in Playtech Software Ltd and another v Games Global Ltd and others [2024] EWHC 3264 (Ch) of18 Dec 2024. The Parties Playtech is a member of a group of companies that designs, develops and supplies online gambling games and associated software.   Another member of the group is a Latvian com...

By Seauton, 24 February 2019 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77004919   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Lord Justice Warby) Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021) On 11 Feb 2021, Mr Justice Warby (as he then was) gave judgment in the Duchess of Sussex's application for summary judgment in her claim for misuse of personal information and copyright infringement.  She was largely successful and I discussed his judgment in  Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers   12 Feb 2021. There remained the following issues which the learned lord lustice set out at para [10] of a further judgment ( HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd . [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021) after a full day's hearing on 2 March 2021: "(1) What are the remaining issues in the action, and what is the most appropriate procedural mechanism for dealing with them? (2) What re...

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Chancery Division  (HH Judge Halliwell)  Shua Ltd v Camp and Furnace Ltd [2020] EWHC 687 (Ch) (24 March 2020) This was a trial of preliminary issues in a passing off and copyright infringement action that had been brought by Shua Limited  ("Shua") against one of its shareholders, Camp and Furnace Ltd.  ("Camp") and unfair prejudice proceedings that Camp has launched against Shua, its director and shareholder Joshua Burke ("Mr Burke") and his fellow shareholder Jonathan Lacey ("Mr Lacey"). The Passing off Claim Shua offers an entertainment called Bongo's Bingo ,  That appears from the above promotional video to be a combination of bingo and disco.  "Bingo" is described by Wikipedia as " a game of probability in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off all their numbers."  Having played...