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Shock, Horror! Bored Approximate Quits For Ip Consultancy

read in today's Telegraph that Sir Hugh Laddie, the pop too well-respected senior approximate inwards the Patents Court, is quitting the Bench side past times side calendar month for a consultancy utilization amongst intellectual belongings solicitors Willoughby & Partners.

Tony Willoughby: an erstwhile friend of Sir Hugh

Sir Hugh explained that he wanted to central the "isolation" of the Bench for what he called the "fun too usual back upwardly of working inwards a team". The Telegraph comments that his unwillingness to proceed serving on the Bench is a sign that judges are increasingly reluctant to bring what has been traditionally regarded every bit a "life sentence". Sir Hugh Laddie has been a Chancery approximate for 10 years. He told The Daily Telegraph he would stride downward side past times side month. He confesses to his adept fortune inwards having the chance of a novel career "when I even too therefore experience in that place is enough of crusade left inwards me".

is heartbroken. Sir Hugh powerfulness guide maintain been bored, only he was never boring. It was a pleasance to read his judgments, whether they were of the usual high touchstone or (unusually) were every bit inexplicable every bit Chocosuisse (in which, incidentally, Tony Willoughby's theater acted for the losing party).

Sir Hugh's greatest hits: Wagamama Ltd v City Centre Restaurants Plc [1995] FSR 713 (sorry, no link!) too here ...
... too his greatest misses here and here

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