Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:38:20 +0100

From: Andrew Tettenborn

Subject: Zany litigation, but serious obligations law

It was jokingly said of a pre-Great War Lord Chancellor that, if he heard the Germans had landed in Britain, his first reaction would have been to go to the Chancery Division and obtain an immediate injunction.

Fiction has a curious way of turning into fact. The Republic of Equatorial Guinea and its president have just done exactly this, seeking an injunction against the gentlemen who ran an unsuccessful coup last year restraining them from trying the same thing again.

All good clean fun for those who like zany litigation. There's also a good deal of solid stuff on whether mounting a coup is an assault on the president (after all, he might fear for his safety): causing loss by unlawful means: and conspiracy.

See President of the State of Equatorial Guinea & Ors v Logo Ltd & Ors [2005] EWHC QB 2034. Happy reading for the first day of autumn.

Andrew

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Lawyer (n): One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Litigation (n): A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

- Ambrose Bierce (1906).

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