BL-2023-NCL-000014 - [2025] EWHC 2074 (Ch)

I turn to the facts in a little more detail

Mr Mellor got to know Paul Davis in about 2000. Paul Davis was a Disc Jockey and a close friend. Mr Mellor got to know Steve Davis in about 2010. The two Davis brothers had, as Mr Mellor understood it, set up a number of companies using the name “SSD”, being the initials of Steve Davis. Paul Davis tended to run and deliver the events at the venues. Steve Davis was responsible for artist bookings, ticketing and the “financial side”.

Mr Mellor was aware of Ticketline, he having personally purchased tickets from it and by reason of that company having acted as ticket agent for a festival that a Tokyo company had arranged in about 2014. Mr Mellor had not personally been involved in the relationship with Ticketline at that time and it did not continue beyond the one festival.