[2025] EWHC 1954 (IPEC)

One of the problems with this case is that the witnesses were trying to recall events which took place many years ago, essentially between about 1979 and the mid-1980s, with very little contemporaneous documentation to help them. Most of them were teenagers at the beginning of that period, and it seemed to me from their evidence that Mr Lant, Mr Bray and their band mate Jeffrey Dunn, who gave evidence for Mr Bray, concentrated on making the band a success, rather than on any legal niceties about the nature of their trading relationship or copyright ownership. Indeed, Mr Dunn’s view was that at that time the teenage band members “hadn’t a clue.” I discuss the conflicts of evidence later in this judgment, but at this point I will try to set out the history of the band and of this dispute in general terms.