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Spamhaus – an anti-spam company – has been ordered by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to pay E360 US$27,000 in damages for wrongly putting E360 on a spam blacklist. The...
Franchisor liable for negligent advice to franchisee despite disclaimers and exclusions of liability – MGB Printing v Kall Kwik, High Court
This case concerned MGB’s purchase of one of Kall Kwik’s existing printing services franchises. In doing so, MGB asked Kall Kwik about the cost of re-fitting, which Kall Kwik advised that it should...
Account of profits sometimes claimable as remedy for breach of confidentiality and sometimes not, depending on the nature of the duty – Vercoe v Rutland, High Court
V&P had approached R about a possible acquisition of a company called H&T. V&P and R had entered into a confidentiality agreement about this. In breach of that agreement, R bought H&T without...
Bank’s duty of care
This case considered complaints that the bank had failed to act in accordance with normal banking practice and that it had not complied with advertisements which stated that there were locally based agricultural...