Senin, 04 Agustus 2003

Old Injunction, Novel Twist

Back inward 1996 Bargain Pages (BP) sued Midland Independent Newspapers (MIN) for passing off. The illustration was settled on damage which included a courtroom social club restricting the names too get-ups nether which MIN could expose its ain papers too ordering MIN to impose that social club on its raise too subsidiary companies. Six years later, next intense corporate reorganisation on each side, BP had give-up the ghost a subsidiary of Bargain Pages Media (BPM) too MIN had give-up the ghost purpose of Trinity Mirror, Britain’s largest paper group.

In Jan 2003 BP launched a novel paper, The Bargain Pages, whereupon 1 of MIN’s one-time subsidiaries MNL, itself purpose of the Trinity Mirror group, brought out a competitor publication, Bargain Hunter. BP had already commenced passing off proceedings earlier BP’s lawyers establish the papers relating to the 1996 lawsuit too order. Among the questions earlier the courtroom was whether, inward a claim relating to breach of the 1996 order, BP could better its claim yesteryear joining BPM equally a minute claimant too Trinity Mirror too MNL equally farther defendants. The Vice Chancellor Sir Andrew Morritt ruled that BP could bring together BPM equally a claimant but that Trinity Mirror too MNL could non hold out joined equally defendants since, to position it simply, they were non around at the fourth dimension of the 1996 litigation. But he confirmed that BP could sue MIN for failing to procure the adherence of Trinity Mirror too MNL to the 1996 order.

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