Acrow (Automation) Ltd v R Chainbelt Inc

Subject Matter

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

[1971] 1 WLR 1676

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

[1971] 1 WLR 1676

INJUNCTION — Mandatory — 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

[1971] 1 WLR 1676