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Chambers & Partners 2014
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Legal 500 2010
'Top drawer IP set.'
Legal 500 2010
'Practical and helpful clerks" provide a "smooth and personable service.'
Chambers and Partners 2011
"8 New Square brims with barristers experienced in fighting fiendishly complex, high-value IT and telecoms disputes."
Chambers & Partners (Information Technology) 2014
"an impressive set with quality from the top
silk down to the most junior barristers."
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Jake Fior v The Walt Disney Company Limited [2017] EWHC 2933 (IPEC)
Case Summary | Judgment | 13 November 2017
In a trade mark dispute about ‘ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS’ Henry Ward for the Defendants Disney successfully applied to strike out the Claimant’s pleading that relied on without prejudice correspondence. The Judge held that the exceptions to the without prejudice rule in Oceanbulk Shipping & Trading SA v TMT Asia Limited [2010] UKSC 44 were narrow and that the without prejudice rule ought not be lightly eroded.