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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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