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Jurisdiction

Bonnier Media Ltd v Greg Lloyd Smith and Another.


Our client Bonnier Media owned the newspaper business a.m and the trademark. We successfully obtained an Interdict in Scotland against Greg Lloyd Smith and Kestrel Trading Corporation from using a domain name that infringed our clients trademark in Scotland

The court stated that a "person who sets up [a] website can be regarded as potentially committing a delict in any country where the website can be seen, in other words in any country in the world."


The Scottish Court of Session held that it had jurisdiction in the matter dispite the case involving an American resident in Greece and a company registered in Mauritius. The judgement enabled our clients to stop the infringer from using the domain names that were similar to their registered trademark held by our client.