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GB Gas Holdings Limited v Accenture (UK) Limited and Others [2010]
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This guide was last updated in August 2011.
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This guide is based on UK law. It was written and last reviewed in January 2010. For IT service providers, there are many opportunities to get ahead of the competition by engaging with 'green'...
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This guide is based on UK law. It was written and last reviewed in January 2010. The Companies Act 2006 introduced a new duty on directors to "have regard to [among other things] the impact of the...
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This guide is based on UK law and was written in January 2009. The sub judice rule regulates the publication of matters which are under consideration by the court. Matters are considered to be sub...
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The Claimant tried to register an alpha-numeric telephone number as a service mark. The Court found, as one of the grounds for refusing the registration, that the mark did not have the requisite capacity to distinguish, since it was no more than an encoded...
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An application for specific performance was granted in circumstances where a large telecommunications company breaches a contract with a small reseller, on the basis that since the small company's business depended upon the contract, it was appropriate...
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The Court of Appeal held that a contract to supply an IT system was breached by installing a time-lock device in that system, on the ground of breach of the warranty to give quiet possession.
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Sony obtained an injunction preventing Tesco from importing Playstations from France. Granting the injunction, the judge applied European case law relating to intra-Community parallel imports of pharmaceutical products to the IT industry.
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The Court of Appeal gave guidance on the meaning of "in perpetuity": where a contract provides for the continuation of such an obligation "in perpetuity", the words must be given their ordinary meaning and thus the obligation continues after the contract...
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