Paterson Zochonis & Company Ltd v Merfarken Packaging Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1983
Date1983
Year1983
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

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    • Chancery Division
    • 24 August 2017
    ...Co (Nos 4 and 5) [2002] 2 AC 883 HL; South Australia Asset Management v York Montague [1996] 3 WLR 87; Paterson Zochonis Limited and Ors v Merfarken Packaging Limited and Ors [1983] FSR 273; Sutherland Publishing Company Limited v Caxton Publishing Company Limited [1936] Ch 322; and Gerbe......
  • Perl (P) (Exporters) Ltd v Camden London Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 June 1983
    ...be liable in negligence for the wrongdoing of a third party. This is a matter which this Court considered recently in Paterson Zochonis Ltd. v. Merfarken Packaging Ltd. (1983) F.S.R. 273, and which I need not therefore dwell upon in this judgment. In particular, I have in mind certain cases......
  • Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd; Maloco v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 5 February 1987
    ...the chain of causation, may, as Robert Goff L.J. suggested in [the] passage which I have just cited from Paterson Zochonis Ltd. v. Merfarken Packaging Ltd. [1983] F.S.R. 273, 299, not be essentially material. Personally I prefer the former approach and would limit the area of the duty itsel......
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1 books & journal articles
  • ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...& Co(1888) LR 13 App Cas 401 at 406. 56 This danger was recognised by Goff LJ in Paterson Zochonis & Co Ltd v Merfarken Packaging Ltd[1986] 3 All ER 522 (CA), when he cautioned, in relation to a claim for damages not by reason of the infringement found of the plaintiff's copyright but “for ......