Hearings
06 Oct 2017 [2017] EWHC 2465 (QB); [2018] 1 WLR 1149; [2017] WLR(D) 650, QBD (John Howell QC)
Brainbox Digital Ltd v Backbord Media GmbH
Subject Matter
INJUNCTION — Freezing order — Undertaking as to damages — Claimant obtaining proprietary and freezing injunction — Cross-undertaking in damages given to court — Defendants seeking fortification of cross-undertaking by making continuation of injunction conditional on further unlimited undertaking — Whether continuation of injunction to be conditional on further unlimited undertaking — Principles applying to applications for fortification — Whether fortification required
[2017] EWHC 2465 (QB); [2018] 1 WLR 1149; [2017] WLR(D) 650, QBD
Cases Considered
Cases considered in: Brainbox Digital Ltd v Backbord Media GmbH [2017] EWHC 2465 (QB); [2018] 1 WLR 1149; [2017] WLR(D) 650, QBD
Energy Venture Partners Ltd v Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 1295; [2015] 1 WLR 2309; [2015] 1 All ER (Comm) 97; [2014] WLR (D) 417, CA Applied
Cases Cited
Cases cited in: Brainbox Digital Ltd v Backbord Media GmbH [2017] EWHC 2465 (QB); [2018] 1 WLR 1149; [2017] WLR(D) 650, QBD
Belmont Finance Corpn Ltd v Williams Furniture Ltd [1979] Ch 250; [1978] 3 WLR 712; [1979] 1 All ER 118, CA
Bhimji v Chatwani [1992] BCLC 387
Bloomsbury International Ltd v Holyoake [2010] EWHC 1150 (Ch), Ch D
BrimKo Holdings Ltd v Eastman Kodak Co [2004] EWHC 1343 (Ch), Ch D
Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd v Fielding [2014] EWHC 1908 (Ch), Ch D
Energy Venture Partners Ltd v Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 1295; [2015] 1 WLR 2309; [2015] 1 All ER (Comm) 97; [2014] WLR (D) 417, CA
Harley Street Capital Ltd v Tchigirinski [2005] EWHC 2471 (Ch), Ch D
JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank v Pugachev [2015] EWCA Civ 139; [2016] 1 WLR 160; [2015] 2 All ER (Comm) 816; [2015] WTLR 991; [2015] WLR (D) 94, CA
Keary Developments Ltd v Tarmac Construction Ltd [1995] 3 All ER 534, CA
Kloeckner & Co A G v Gatoil Overseas Inc [1990] 1 Lloyd's Rep 177; The Times, 9 April 1990, CA
Rubin v Expandable Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 59; [2008] 1 WLR 1099, CA
Vogon International Ltd v Serious Fraud Office [2004] EWCA Civ 104, CA
Cases citing
Cases citing: Brainbox Digital Ltd v Backbord Media GmbH [2017] EWHC 2465 (QB); [2018] 1 WLR 1149; [2017] WLR(D) 650, QBD
M L Technology Limited & Anor v B.E.A.T SAM & Ors [2023] EWHC 1660 (Ch), Ch D
Magomedov v TPG Group Holdings (SBS) LP [2023] EWHC 3134 (Comm); [2024] 1 WLR 2205; [2024] 3 All ER 699; [2024] 2 All ER (Comm) 451; [2023] WLR(D) 522, KBD
Commentary
Blackstones Civil Practice 2023
American Cyanamid Guidelines - Undertakings in damages - Fortifying the undertaking in damages
37.26