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NLJ this week: Duty calls for directors after Lifestyle Equities

06 September 2024
Issue: 8084 / Categories: Legal News , Company , In Court , Copyright
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The Supreme Court clarified the scope of directors’ duties in a recent landmark decision on trade mark infringement

Peter Knox KC and Adam Riley, both 3 Hare Court, and Remy Choo, joint managing director of RCL Chambers Law Corporation and an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, cover the case in this week’s NLJ.

They set out the salient points and implications of the decision, in which Lord Leggatt addressed directors’ duties, accessory liability and orders for account of profit. The case arose from a trade mark dispute between two companies, one which sold clothes with a logo of a man on a horse playing polo next to the name ‘Santa Monica Polo Club’, while the other sold products bearing the name ‘Beverley Hills Polo Club’. 

The authors also explain the Supreme Court’s consideration of and adoption of the Singapore Court of Appeal’s reasoning in PT Sandipala.

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NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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