Summary The judgment of the European Court of Justice in Svensson v Retriever Sverige AB (C-466/12) [2014] Bus. L.R. 259 did not detract from the High Court's reasoning in earlier cases involving injunctions under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s.97A requiring internet service providers to impede customers' access to...

Summary Where the Revenue had petitioned for the winding-up of a company on the basis of unpaid VAT assessments, the overall balance of convenience plainly favoured the continuance of the appointment of a provisional liquidator until the effective hearing of the petition where there were real questions as to the...

Summary The rules requiring concision in skeleton arguments in the Court of Appeal existed to enable the court to deal with its business in a timely and efficient manner. There was no exception to the rules for commercial litigation: it was just as important to put one's argument concisely in...

Summary A judge had been entitled to reject an application to set aside a default judgment, even though the applicant had a real prospect of successfully defending the claim, where the application had been made almost a year after judgment. Permission to appeal against the rejection of the application was...

Summary In the first case since the coming into force of the Gambling Act 2005, an English court had to determine whether the conduct of a party to a gambling contract amounted to cheating for the purposes of the civil law. The use of a croupier as an innocent agent in...

Summary In accordance with the express terms of an agency agreement, a company which distributed financial products to independent financial advisers was entitled to override commission at a rate of 0.2 per cent of the value of all business placed by a large distributor with an organisation engaged in setting up...

Summary In a collective enfranchisement, no rule of law prohibited a valuation approach incorporating a "purchaser's margin", namely the difference between the amount a purchaser would pay for the freehold of the building with vacant possession of the short leasehold flats and the aggregate value of those flats if sold...

Summary A judge's construction of a clause in a lease agreement which would have required an assigning tenant not merely to procure a new guarantee but also a new guarantor was incorrect. The judge was correct to regard the whole of the proviso in the clause as being avoided by...