Case Nos: IL-2023-000080 and IL-2024-000038 - [2025] EWHC 2561 (Ch)

The parties were ordered to file their skeleton arguments by Friday 28 March 2025. No skeleton was filed on behalf of the defendants by that date. On 31 March 2025 the defendants filed and served two skeleton arguments, one for each of the claims. They are not signed and are clearly not finalised, being very much in draft form. Their content and style suggest that they were drafted by counsel. It is possible that the counsel concerned did not authorise their use (see below). If not, pursuant to s.45(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 there is no difficulty from a copyright perspective. Junior counsel for IDDQD was unable to find any other reported barrier to their use by the defendants.

I indicated to counsel for the claimants that they should treat the arguments raised on those skeletons as arguments advanced by the defendants at the trial unless Mr Smith stated otherwise.