MR JUSTICE NICKLIN Approved Judgment
MBR Acres Ltd -v- Curtin
B: Background and parties 12.
There have been several previous interim judgments in the claim: (1) [2021] EWHC 2996 (QB) (10 November 2021) (“the Interim Injunction Judgment”); (2) [2022] EWHC 1677 (QB) (31 March 2022) (“the Conspiracy Amendment Judgment”); (3) [2023] QB 186 (16 May 2022) (“the First Contempt Judgment”); (4) [2022] EWHC 1715 (QB) (20 June 2022) (“the First Injunction Variation Judgment”); (5) [2022] EWHC 2072 (QB) (2 August 2022) (“the Second Contempt Judgment”); and (6) [2022] EWHC 3338 (KB) (22 December 2022) (“the Second Injunction Variation Judgment”). The background to this case – and the key procedural steps – are set out in these judgments, but as this is the final judgment in the claim, and for ease of reference, I will set out again some of the key facts. (1) The Claimants 13. The First and Third Claimants are subsidiaries of the Marshall Farm Group Ltd, incorporated in the US and trading as Marshall Bioresources. The First and Third Claimants breed animals for medical and clinical research at sites in Cambridgeshire and Hull. 14. The First Claimant is licensed by the Secretary of State, under ss.2B-2C Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, to breed animals for supply to licensed entities authorised to conduct animal testing and research. It is presently a legal requirement, in the United Kingdom, that all potential new medicines intended for human use are tested on two species of mammal before they are tested on human volunteers in clinical trials. 15. The Second Claimant is an employee of the First Claimant acting in these proceedings to represent the officers and employees of the First Claimant, third-party suppliers, and service providers to the First Claimant pursuant to (what is now) CPR 19.8. 16. The Fourth Claimant is an employee of the Third Claimant and is its Site Manager & UK Administration & European Quality Manager. The Fourth Claimant represents the officers and employees of the Third Claimant, third-party suppliers, and service providers to the Third Claimant pursuant to CPR 19.8. (2) The Wyton Site 17. The Wyton Site is in countryside, about 2 miles to the northeast of Huntingdon, very close to RAF Wyton. The only entrance to the Wyton Site is situated on a straight
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