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İşbilen v Selman Turk & Ors [2024] EWHC 505 (Ch)

Area of Law: Civil Fraud

Dan McCourt Fritz KC and Andrew Gurr act in successful committal application

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Lifestyle Equities CV and another (Respondents) v Amazon UK Services Ltd and others (Appellants)

Area of Law: Intellectual Property

Michael Edenborough KC and Thomas St Quintin (Hogarth Chambers) (instructed by Brandsmiths) acted for the successful Respondent in the Supreme Court, which dismissed Amazon’s appeal on whether its amazon.com site had targeted customers in the UK. This now becomes the leading judgment on targeting and will provide helpful, detailed guidance on the matter.

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Loveridge v Povey and Ors [2024] EWHC 329 (Ch)

Area of Law: Company

Dan McCourt Fritz KC and Ramyaa Veerabathran successfully represented the respondent controlling shareholder, Ivy Loveridge, in an application made by her son, Michael Loveridge, under paragraph 74 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 (the “Insolvency Application”), seeking to prevent the administrators of Breton Park Residential Homes Ltd (“Breton Park”) from rescuing it as a going concern on the basis that the proposed rescue would be unfair to his interests, purportedly as a shareholder of the company.

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THG plc and others v. Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 158

Area of Law: Company

Lance Ashworth KC and Dan McCourt Fritz KC acted on behalf of the successful appellants, THG plc and others, in this unfair prejudice petition, instructed by Catherine Naylor and Tom Cox at Gowling WLG (UK) LLP.

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Leonard v Leonard [2024] EWHC 321(ChD)

Area of Law: Private Client Trusts and Probate

Constance McDonnell KC and George Vare, assisted by Anneliese Mondschein, acted on behalf of the successful Claimants in this contested probate claim (instructed by Bernadette Baker, Kate Harris, and Anna Lambert of Birketts LLP).

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Barrett v Universal - Island Records Ltd [2006] EMLR:

Area of Law: Intellectual Property

Elizabeth Jones KC acted for the successful defendants against members of the Wailers who claimed to have been parties to recording contracts with Bob Marley, and also claimed ownership of the copyrights in certain tracks written by Bob Marley.

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Crafts Group LLC v MS Indeutsch International

Area of Law: Intellectual Property

Michael Edenborough KC and Stephanie Wickenden have successfully represented Crafts Group in their appeal to the Court of Appeal in Crafts Group LLC v MS Indeutsch International [2024] EWCA Civ 87. 

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Blackhorse Investments (Borough) Limited v The London Borough of Southwark [2024] UKUT 33 (LC)

Area of Law: Property

Jonathan Upton has successfully resisted an application to set aside the whole of a final order modifying covenants in a lease of a public house. 

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Dyer v Webb

Area of Law: Property

Amy Proferes acted for the successful respondents in Dyer v Webb [2023] EWHC 1917 (KB). Perhaps unusually for a neighbour dispute, the case (as noted by Dexter Dias KC in his judgment) "raises important questions about the nature, extent and limitations of certain of our fundamental freedoms under the law."  The judgment confirms that objecting to planning applications, and discussing those applications with others, are rights protected under the Human Rights Act 1998.

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