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BSkyBITV

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 7 2009

A recent judgment of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), dismissing an appeal by BSkyB (the UK’s largest pay TV provider), has upheld a decision of the Secretary of State of January 2008 (implementing a Report from the Competition Commission) that BSkyB’s acquisition of a 17.9 percent shareholding in ITV (a UK national terrestrial television broadcaster) would give rise to adverse effects on competition

Patents Court upholds supplementary protection certificate for a novel enantiomer in Generics UK Limited v Daiichi

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

Generics (UK) Limited (“GUK”) was unsuccessful in its attempt before the Patents Court (Mr Justice Kitchin) to revoke Daiichi's Supplementary Protection Certificate (“SPC”) in respect of levofloxacin

Causation battle

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

XL Insurance has defeated a claim against its policyholder Johnston Precast Ltd by proving that it was not responsible for a burst water main in Holland Park in 2004 (J Murphy & Sons Limited v Johnston Precast Limited

Trees do not a forest make

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 19 2008

A recent court ruling has confirmed the right of a garden owner to manage his garden without undue interference from the Forestry Commission

Limitation in professional negligence claims

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

First instance judges have rejected claimants' attempts to defeat limitation arguments by postponing the accrual of their cause of action in two cases since the Court of Appeal's decision in the summer in Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services

Watch out! Human Rights Act places NHS trusts under a specific duty to protect suicidal patients from killing themselves: Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Trust: House of Lords

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights places a duty on NHS trusts to do all that can be reasonably expected of them to prevent patients who present a real and immediate risk of suicide from succeeding

SFO’s price fixing prosecution of pharmaceutical companies rejected

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 31 2008

A prosecution brought by the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) alleging that a number of pharmaceutical companies had conspired to defraud the NHS of £120m by fixing the prices of various drugs has been abandoned after the Court of Appeal refused the SFO permission to appeal

Limitation of liability

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 31 2008

In Metvale Ltd and another v Monsanto International Sarl and others Lawtel 16.12.08 the Chancery court was required to determine as preliminary issues (1) whether slot charterers were shipowners for the purposes of the Limitation Convention 1976 art.1 and were entitled to limit their liability under the Convention and under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and (2) whether the limitation fund constituted in the instant action was deemed to be constituted by the slot charterers under and for the purpose of the Convention and under the Act

Employers’ liability policy trigger litigation

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

These six consolidated actions (Durham v BAI (Run Off) Ltd and other cases) concerned the trigger under various employers' liability (EL) policies

Landlord and tenant consent to assignment

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 14 2009

In the May 2008 edition of property update, we considered the case of Royal Bank of Scotland v Victoria Street (No. 3) Ltd

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