The Court of Appeal Revisits Search Orders - TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd v Simons and Others
Author Ham - Licence CC BY-SA 3.0, Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices David Richards, Newey and Arnold) TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd v Simons and others [2020] EWCA Civ 1182 (8 Sept 2020) This was a judgment on two appeals. The first appeal was brought by John O'Boyle ("Mr O'Boyle") against an order by His Honour Judge Keyser QC permitting TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd, ("TBD") to bring committal proceedings for contempt of court against Mr O'Boyle in TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd v Simons [2019] EWHC 2390. The second was by TBD against Mr Justice Marcus Smith's order in TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd v Simons and others [2020] EWHC 30 (Ch) which I blogged in Search Orders - TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd v Simons and Others on 22 Jan 2020. Both appeals arose from the execution of an order for the search of Mr O'Boyle's home and the premises of his former company G2A Limited ("G2A") on 9 Nov 2018. ...