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NLJ this week: Breaking embargoes on judgments

10 March 2023
Issue: 8016 / Categories: Legal News , Contempt , Procedure & practice
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There seems to have been a spate of judgment embargo breaches since Sir Geoffrey Vos’s warning to forgetful, clumsy or errant lawyers last year that those who breach ought to expect contempt proceedings to follow. 

In the third part of his series, in this week’s NLJ, Neil Parpworth, of Leicester De Montfort Law School, looks into the limits of the court’s leniency should the worst come to pass.

Parpworth focuses on the most recent case, the February case of Interdigital Technology v Lenovo Group, in which mercy was shown. He draws out the factors tending to make courts lenient while advising that the court is likely to want to make an example for deterrence reasons at some point should breaches continue to occur. 

Read Part 3 here.

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NEWS
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
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
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
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
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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