Phonographic Performance Ltd v Hagan & Ors (t/a Lower Ground Bar and the Brent Tavern)
Decision date: 30 November 2016
Neutral citation: [2016] EWHC 3076 (IPEC)
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Short overview
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PPL sued Hagan for unlicensed public performance of sound recordings; judgment found Hagan knowingly and flagrantly infringed and earlier liability and injunction had been entered. The court awarded additional damages of £2,000 under s.97(2) CDPA, applied old Part 36 consequences (indemnity costs from 25 Oct 2013, interest at 4% above base rate from that date, and a 10% uplift of £1,338), and specified interest rates for other periods; PPL to draft final order and costs schedule.
Ratio decidendi
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From the judgment as recorded in the notes, s.97(2) CDPA permits an award of additional damages where the infringement is flagrant (which imports knowledge) and where deterrence or punishment is appropriate beyond compensatory awards. Also, under the old Part 36 regime (rule 36.14(3)), a claimant who succeeds in the relevant sense is ordinarily entitled to indemnity costs, interest and the prescribed additional percentage, and those Part 36 consequences are not subject to the IPEC fixed-cost caps.
Obiter dicta
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The notes record obiter observations that Art.13(1) of the Enforcement Directive provides an EU baseline and that national law may supply greater remedies but awards under national law and the Directive should not be cumulatively doubled; and that the deterrent function of remedies can target both the defendant and potential third-party infringers. The judge also analogised to prior authorities in concluding that Part 36 indemnity awards can override fixed/capped cost regimes (by analogy).
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