Monthly Archives: June 2006

A post from my public access blog “nipc invention” which may interest some of you is a seminar called the “Innovators Toolkit” which will take place at Lancaster University’s InfoLab21 on 3 August 2006 between 09:15 and 12:30. I am … Continue reading →

This is an interesting example of how the courts can still be useful in a domain name dispute. The claimants included the Ritz Hotel, The Ritz Club, and the Ritz Club London Online. As one might imagine, they had registered … Continue reading →

This is the latest episode in a marathon case that has already made a lot of interesting law. The claimant company, Ultraframe (UK) Ltd (“Ultraframe”)., designs and makes modular conservatory roofing systems. One of its products, the Ultralite 500, is … Continue reading →

In Bolkiah v. KPMG [1998] UKHL 52, [1999] 2 AC 222, [1999] 1 All ER 517, [1999] 2 WLR 215 (16 Dec, 1998) the House of Lords considered for the first time some of the problems of confidentiality and conflict … Continue reading →

This case was about the exercise of the judicial discretion to grant summary judgment under CPR Part 24. One of the principal changes brought about by the replacement of the Orders of the Supreme Court by the Civil Procedure Rules … Continue reading →