The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 2 WLR 513
Chancery Division
R Griggs Group Ltd and others v Evans and others
[2004] EWHC 1088 (Ch)
2003 Dec 11;
2004 March 24;
May 12
2004 March 24;
May 12
Peter Prescott QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge
Conflict of laws
— Jurisdiction
— Copyright
— First defendant designing logo for claimants under English contract
— Implied term that copyright in logo to belong to claimants
— First defendant purporting to sell legal title to copyright to foreign company
— Foreign company having notice of facts giving rise to claimants' equitable ownership of copyright
— Claimants seeking order requiring all copyrights to be assigned to them
— Whether English court having jurisdiction to order assignment of foreign copyrights