Legal updates, law reports and SDT - In Practice

Trademarks in toys and games – part two

Monday, 17 June 2013 A recent High Court judgment concerning the Scrabble ‘tile’ trademark highlights the tension between trademarks and the functional elements of toy...

Freedom of information: limits of privilege

Monday, 17 June 2013 One of the key recommendations of the House of Commons Justice Select Committee in its July 2012 report on the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoI) w...

Latest SDT decisions

Read and search all recent SDT decisions

Law reports

Read and search all recent law reports

Immigration

Asylum seeker – Detention – Claimant being detained under non-suspensive appeals process

R (on the application of JB (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division: 12 June 2013

Appeal

Practice – Family proceedings – Ancillary relief

Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd and others: Supreme Court: 12 June 2013

Pensions

Construction of pension scheme – Claimant being principal employer of occupational pension scheme – Defendants being trustees of pension scheme – Construction of rules governing scheme

Royal Mail Group Ltd v Evans and others: Chancery Division: 11 June 2013

Breach of contract

Licence agreement being made between publishing company (Bright Star) and defendant permitting defendant to re-package Reader's Digest book edition of 'Wildlife of Britain'

Morse v Eaglemoss Publications Ltd: Chancery Division: 7 June 2013

More legal updates

Civil procedure: capacity and compromise

Civil Procedure Rule 21.10 provides that where a claim is made by or on behalf of a party who lacks capacity to conduct the proceedings (a child or protected party), no settlement of that claim shall be valid without the approval of the court. The issue before Bean J in Dunhill v Burgin [2012] EWCH 3163 (QB) was whether the rule applies to a personal injury claim, settled at the door of the court, where at the time of the settlement the claimant was not known to lack capacity. Lord Pearson described this rule in Dietz v Lennig Chemicals [1969] 1 AC 170 as the ‘compromise rule’.

Trademarks in toys and games – part one

A recent High Court judgment concerning the Scrabble ‘tile’ trademark highlights the tension between trademarks and the functional elements of toys and games. Below is part one of a two-part summary of a few key decisions in this area, which have shown varying degrees of success.

Electrocoin v Coinworld [2004] EWHC 1498 (Ch)

Injunction to prevent ‘defamatory’ employment tribunal evidence refused

The High Court recently refused (among other things) to grant an interim injunction in libel and harassment to a former council employee, Ayodele Adele Vaughan (the claimant) concerning evidence she anticipated being given in forthcoming employment tribunal (ET) proceedings.