The claimant sought an order for the defendant to be pursued for contempt of court having filed a statement of truth which was known to be false.
Judges:
Pumfrey J
Citations:
[2004] EWHC 1192 (Ch)
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Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Malgar Ltd v R E Leach Engineering Ltd ChD 1-Nov-1999
The Civil Procedure Rules could not change the substantive law. It therefore remained necessary for it to be shown that in addition to knowing that what was said was false, the party had to have known that what was being said was likely to interfere . .
Cited by:
Cited – KJM Superbikes Ltd v Hinton CA 20-Nov-2008
The claimant had been sued for the misuse of trademarks by selling motorcycles imported via a parallel market. It claimed that the defendant had filed false evidence in that action, and now appealed a refusal by the judge to bring contempt . .
See Also – Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited, Sony Computer Entertainment UK Limited v Ball, and others ChD 19-Jul-2004
The claimant sought summary judgment in a claim that the defendant had manufactured computer chips which would be used with their playstation computer games consoles to avoid their copy protection systems.
Held: The fact that the chips only . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Contempt of Court, Civil Procedure Rules
Updated: 19 July 2022; Ref: scu.278205
