D.C. Thomson & Co. v. Deakin

[1952] Ch. 646 (1952)

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D.C. Thomson & Co. v. Deakin

Court of Appeals
[1952] Ch. 646 (1952)

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Facts

D.C. Thomson & Company Ltd (D.C. Thomson) (plaintiff) had a printing and publishing business. D.C. Thomson had a rule forbidding its employees from joining unions. Workers in the business began to strike in opposition to this rule. Those workers were fired. The union asked members in other businesses to refuse to handle products or supplies bound for D.C. Thomson. As a result, a company called Bowaters informed D.C. Thomson that it could no longer supply it paper, which was a breach of its contract with D.C. Thomson. D.C. Thomson sued union officials, including Deakin (defendant), and requested an injunction stopping the union officials from causing Bowaters and other suppliers to breach their contracts with D.C. Thomson. The trial court found in favor of Deakin and the other union officials on the grounds that they had not directly induced Bowaters to take any action, including breaching the contract; rather, they had induced Bowaters employees to refuse to handle supplies intended for D.C. Thomson. D.C. Thomson appealed.

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Holding and Reasoning (Evershed, J.)

Concurrence (Morris, J.)

Concurrence (Jenkins, J.)

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