The Weekly Law Reports
[1971] 1 WLR 1676
[COURT OF APPEAL]
ACROW (AUTOMATION) LTD. v. REX CHAINBELT INC. AND ANOTHER
[1971 A. No. 2979]
1971 July 30
Lord Denning M.R., Phillimore and Megaw L.JJ.
Conflict of Laws
— Jurisdiction
— Contract
— Licence agreement expressed to be governed by English law
— Breach by American corporation with English subsidiary
— Injunction granted
— Whether corporation bound
— Whether acts of other American companies acting on corporation's orders in breach of injunction restrainable
Contract
— Procuring breach
— Interference with contractual relations
— Injunction restraining interference with business Unlawful direction frustrating injunction
— Whether obedience to unlawful direction restrainable by injunction
— Whether contempt of court
Injunction
— Mandatory injunction
— Jurisdiction to grant
— Foreign company's obedience to unlawful direction frustrating injunction
— Whether contempt of court
— Wrongful interference with plaintiffs' business
— Whether restrainable by injunction