The details of a legal battle over lemon juice packaging, and typing blunders... draft, not daft.

Law Society’s Gazette, February 1990

News roundup: lemon lawThe House of Lords unanimously found in favour of Reckitt & Colman, the makers of Jif lemon juice, which is sold in a distinctive lemon-shaped plastic container, concluding a three-year battle with an American company which wanted to sell a rival product in the UK packaged in a similar shaped container. Because it is a natural shape, a lemon cannot be registered as a design. But the Lords accepted that consumers were more likely to buy the lemon on account of shape rather than read the product’s label.

Draft, not daft [letter to editor]I have just received a fee note from counsel on an Inheritance Act claim. Counsel has billed me for ‘daft interrogatories’. I wonder if my opponents have had a word with my counsel’s clerk.

GMG Hoare, Bournemouth