Results: 101

• In re Cape plc

  07 Jun 2005 [2006] EWHC 1316 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 109; [2006] 3 All ER 1222; [2007] 2 BCLC 546; The Times, 5 July 2006, Ch D (David Richards J)

  Subsequent citations: 6.
  COMPANY — Scheme of arrangement — Sanction of court
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  COMPANY — Scheme of arrangement — Sanction of court — Companies proposing scheme to provide settlements for asbestos claims over long period of time — Scheme allowing for future amendment of terms — Whether court having jurisdiction to sanction scheme — Whether unlawfully excluding or restricting companies' liability for death or personal injury — Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, s 2(1) — Companies Act 1985 (as amended by Insolvency Act 1985, s 109(1), Sch 6, para 11), s 425(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Customs and Excise Comrs v Royal Bank of Scotland plc (Oval 1742 Ltd, In re)

  06 Nov 2006 [2006] EWHC 2813 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 474, Ch D

  29 Nov 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 1262; [2008] Bus LR 1213, CA

  COMPANY — Debenture — Fixed or floating charge
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  COMPANY — Debenture — Fixed or floating charge — Company selling business and assets — Company subsequently going into liquidation — Consideration for assets paid to debenture holder both before and after date of liquidation — Company's solicitors making undertakings to debenture holder in relation to payments — Debenture holder releasing charge after receiving payment — Whether preferential creditors payable in priority to debenture holder — Whether payments subject to floating charge — Whether debenture holder “taking possession” of property comprised in charge — Companies Act 1985, s 196 (as substituted by Insolvency Act 1986, s 439(1), Sch 13, Pt I) — Insolvency Act 1986, s 175

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Häupl v Lidl Stiftung & Co KG

  14 Jun 2007 (Case C-246/05); EU:C:2007:340; [2007] Bus LR D89; [2007] ECR I-4673, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 14.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade mark law — Article 101 of Directive 89/104/EEC
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade mark law — Article 101 of Directive 89/104/EEC — Absence of genuine use of a trade mark — Concept of 'date of the completion of the registration procedure'
• Dyson Ltd v Registrar of Trade Marks

  15 May 2003 [2003] EWHC 1062 (Ch); [2003] 1 WLR 2406, Ch D

  27 Jan 2007 (Case C-321/03); EU:C:2007:51; [2007] Bus LR 787, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 30.
  TRADE MARK — Registration — Practice

  TRADE MARK — Registration — Shape of goods

  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade marks — Approximation of laws
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  TRADE MARK — Registration — Practice — Registrar objecting to registration of mark following ex parte hearing — Hearing officer upholding decision — Applicant appealing to court — Whether appeal to court by way of rehearing — Trade Marks Act 1994, s 76 — CPR r 52.11(1)

  TRADE MARK — Registration — Shape of goods — “Sign” — Application to register part of external appearance of bagless vacuum cleaner as trade mark — Application accompanied by image taken to represent example of mark applied for — Whether “sign” — Whether capable of constituting trade mark — Council Directive 89/104/EEC, art 2

  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade marks — Approximation of laws — Directive 89/104/EEC — Article 2 — Concept of a sign of which a trade mark may consist — Transparent bin or collection chamber forming part of the external surface of a vacuum cleaner

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Proform Sports Management Ltd v Proactive Sports Management Ltd

  26 Jul 2006 [2006] EWHC 2903 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 93; [2007] 1 All ER (Comm) 356; [2007] 1 All ER 542, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  TORT — Cause of action — Procuring breach of contract
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  TORT — Cause of action — Procuring breach of contract — Child footballer entering into representation agreement with claimants — Claimants bringing action against defendants for unlawful interference with, or procuring breach of, agreement — Whether liability if contract voidable — Whether representation agreement analogous to contract of apprenticeship, education and service — Whether contract voidable by child

  4 Case(s) considered

• Microsoft Corpn v McDonald (trading as Bizads)

  12 Dec 2006 [2006] EWHC 3410 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 548, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  MARKETING — Electronic communications — Unsolicited transmission of
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  MARKETING — Electronic communications — Unsolicited transmission of — Statutory requirement that addressee give consent before being sent marketing e-mails — Defendant offering lists of e-mail addresses for sale incorrectly representing addressees consenting — Claimant e-mail provider bringing action — Whether claimant within class of persons for whose benefit consent requirement imposed — Whether entitled to injunction preventing further breaches of requirement — Whether defendant “instigating” purchasers of lists of addresses to transmit unsolicited marketing communications — Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, regs 22, 30

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Golden Strait Corpn v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha (The Golden Victory)

  15 Feb 2005 [2005] EWHC 161 (Comm); [2005] 1 All ER (Comm) 467; [2005] 1 Lloyd's Rep 443, QBD (Langley J)

  18 Oct 2005 [2005] EWCA Civ 1190; [2006] 1 WLR 533; [2006] 1 All ER (Comm) 235; [2005] 2 Lloyd's Rep 747, CA (Auld, Tuckey LJJ, Lord Mance)

  28 Mar 2007 [2007] UKHL 12; [2007] 2 AC 353; [2007] 2 WLR 691; [2007] Bus LR 997; [2007] 3 All ER 1; [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 97; [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 164, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 5 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 129.
  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Repudiation
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  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Repudiation — Repudiation of long-term charterparty where market available — Charterparty containing war clause — Charterers repudiating charterparty — War breaking out after repudiation but before end of charter period — Whether damages recoverable by shipowner to be assessed as at date of repudiation or to take actual outbreak of war into account

  12 Case(s) considered

• Score Draw Ltd v Finch

  09 Mar 2007 [2007] EWHC 462 (Ch); [2007] Bus LR 864, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  TRADE MARK — Registration — Signs capable of constituting trade marks
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  TRADE MARK — Registration — Signs capable of constituting trade marks — Sporting emblem previously used in non trade mark manner — Whether previous use preventing registration as trade mark — Whether mark distinctive of trade origin — Trade Marks Act 1994, s 3(1)(b)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Real Estate Opportunities Ltd v Aberdeen Asset Managers Jersey Ltd

  09 Mar 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 197; [2007] Bus LR 971; [2007] 2 All ER 791, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  FINANCIAL SERVICES — Investigation — Confidential information
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  FINANCIAL SERVICES — Investigation — Confidential information — Financial Services Authority's investigation into activities of defendants — Authority providing defendants with transcripts of evidence given by defendants' employees — Authority issuing warning notices to defendants — Defendants ordered as part of subsequent litigation to give inspection of transcripts of evidence and warning notices — Whether defendants “obtaining” information contained in transcripts from authority — Whether inspection of warning notices resulting in their prohibited “publication” — Whether defendants entitled to withhold inspection — Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, ss 348, 391 — CPR r 31.19(3)

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Aerotel Ltd v Telco Holdings Ltd

  03 May 2006 [2006] EWHC 997 (Pat), Ch D (Lewison J)

  27 Oct 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1371; [2007] Bus LR 634; [2007] 1 All ER 225; [2007] RPC 7, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 45.
  PATENT — Invention — Exclusion from patentability
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  PATENT — Invention — Exclusion from patentability — Business methods and computer programs — Test to be applied in considering whether contributions should “not be regarded as inventions” — Convention on the Grant of European Patents (1978), art 52(2)(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 International Agreement considered