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High Court upholds injunction against copyright infringement

Jan 12, 2013 News

Yesterday morning, Justice Rishi Persaud, ruled on the Injunction Orders in the matter involving Nelson Thornes and Abbisham Boodhoo & Gandhi Sales & Investments Ltd case.
The Judge ruled that the Interim Injunctions previously ordered by him in September last year, would be continued in force until the hearing and determination of the action. He refused the application of the first and second-named Defendants (Abbisham Boodhoo & Gandhi Sales & Investments Ltd.) to discharge the Injunctions, especially as he held that a prima facie case of infringement of copyright had been made out.
Justice Persaud’s ruling means that the defendants are prevented from infringing the Plaintiffs’ copyright (by the unauthorized reproduction and sale of specified school texts) until the end of the litigation.
When the matter first came up before Justice Persaud, the third, fourth and sixth named Defendants (T. Nicholas, J. Nicholas & Monica Beepat/”Giftland Office Max”) through their lawyers had informed the Court they did not intend to contest the matter and would abide by any Orders the Court saw fit to make.
Yesterday morning, theirs and the Plaintiffs’ lawyers told the Court they were close to a final settlement.  The Plaintiffs are represented by Andrew M.F. Pollard of Hughes, Fields and Stoby, while the first and second Defendants (Abbisham Boodhoo & Gandhi Sales & Investments Ltd.) are represented by K.A. Juman Yassin.  The third and fourth named Defendants (T. & J. Nicholas) are represented by Charles Ramson Jnr. The sixth Defendant (Monica Beepat) is represented by Timothy M. Jonas of Fitzpatrick, De Caires & Karran.
Last September, Attorney-at-law Andrew Pollard, on behalf of the British Publishers’ Association, filed an injunction in the High Court stopping all local publishing houses from printing and selling the pirated textbooks. The orders were served on the respective publishing houses with immediate effect.
Pollard said that extensive complaints were made to former Education Minister Shaik Baksh who promised to take action against the illegal act. The Minister never fulfilled his promises, Pollard claimed. That forced the copyright company to move to the court this time around.

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