NIPC Law

Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Costa v DissociaDID Ltd. and anothe r  [2022] EWHC 1934 (IPEC) (22 July 2022)  and [2023] EWHC 49 (IPEC) (16 Jan 2023) Since early 2018, Chloe Wilkinson ("Miss Wilkinson") has run a YouTube channel called DissociaDID which provides information on a condition known as dissociative identity disorder or "DID". According to the NHS website : "Someone diagnosed with DID may feel uncertain about their identity and who they are. They may feel the presence of other identities, each with their own names, voices, personal histories and mannerisms. The main symptoms of DID are: memory gaps about everyday events and personal information having several distinct identities." The channel has been very successful attracting over a million subscribers and generating revenues of just under £105,000 in 2020.  In Aug 2020 Ms Wilkinson set up Dissociadid Ltd . ("Dissociadid") to operate the channel....

After the party comes the bill. In this final episode of the Media CAT saga ( Media CAT v Adams No, 4 [2011] EPC 10) His Honour Judge Birss QC decided who was to pay for episodes 1 , 2 and 3 . Or, to be more accurate, whether the solicitors who brought this litigation and their principal Andrew Crossley , should pay for them under s.51 (6) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 , This sub-section provides: "In any proceedings mentioned in subsection (1), the court may disallow, or (as the case may be) order the legal or other representative concerned to meet, the whole of any wasted costs or such part of them as may be determined in accordance with rules of court." The proceedings mentioned in s.51 (1) are proceedings in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal, the High Court and any county court. Wasted costs are defined by s.51 (7) as "any costs incurred by a party— (a) as a result of any improper, unreasonable or negligent act or omission on the part of any legal or ot...