DEAKIN V CARD RAX and ors – HHJ Fysh QC, in one of his last judgments ([2011] EWPCC 3), as judge of the Patents County Court, has handed down an enormous judgment (86 pages) which deals with a number of difficult areas in the area of copyright and contract law where the business relationship between copyright licensor and licensee breaks down. It also clarifies the law concerning joint tortfeasorship. The judgment dealt with more than 60 issues of fact and law and was heard over 13 days.
