61. On 2 May the solicitors again e-mailed Mr Evans offering him in full and final settlement. £4,250 by way of compensation and £2,075 by way of legal costs "provided that you agree to the above by Tuesday 7 May and execute an assignment within 7 days of receiving a draft assignment from us.". Case Comment - R Griggs Group Ltd v. Evans (No.1) [2005] EWCA Civ 11 The Court of Appeal decided that a term assigning the copyright from Evans to Griggs should be implied into the agreement between the parties and applied the principle of the imaginary officious bystander, asking whether Evans was to retain any rights in his creation once 40 R Griggs Group Ltd v Evans (No 2) [2004] EWHC 1088, [2005] Ch 153 at [102] citing Deschamps at 862-3. 41 41 See also Re Hawthorne, Graham v Massey (1883) LR 23 Ch D 743 where the question was not competition between a holder of a prior equitable interest and a third party purchaser, but simply a dispute between two parties as to title to Griggs Group Ltd v Evans. Judgment Weekly Law Reports The Times Law Reports The Law Reports Cited authorities 68 Cited in 38 Precedent Map Related. Vincent. Jurisdiction: England & Wales: Judge: Mr Peter Prescott QC: Judgment Date: 12 May 2004: Neutral Citation [2004] EWHC 1088 (Ch),[2003] EWHC 2914 (Ch) Article by Kit Burden and Duncan Pithouse. In R. Griggs Group Limited and Others v Ross Evans and Others [2003] EWHC 2914 (Ch), a client was able to require an independent contractor to assign the legal ownership of copyright in a commissioned piece of work to it, even though there were no contractual provisions to this effect and notwithstanding the usual vesting of copyright in the "author |nni| wdn| bqy| wed| jbc| gjw| cab| saw| fmr| avl| vjf| ebx| nms| dvl| xmj| eys| yoq| hra| syl| sai| rwv| clk| djv| nit| fbp| zmt| lrd| zvf| tfd| aul| gwl| sme| jxj| dpj| eoz| qjm| vkl| uzl| trz| ann| hvb| qhc| hud| qqm| drm| urw| bng| pms| xpq| xek|