The New York Laser Clinic Ltd v Naturastudios Ltd & Ors
Citation not recorded · Court not recorded · 2020
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Summary
Following a judgment of £3,876,830 (including £3,580,097 for loss of profits) against Naturastudios Ltd, the claimant obtained a post-judgment freezing order. The High Court continued the freezing order against the corporate defendants but required £10,000/month fortification of the claimant's cross-undertaking due to its negative net assets.
Key attributes
- Claimant type
- Company
- Defendant type
- Corporate and Individual
- Sector
- Medical Aesthetics / Laser Clinics
- Platform
- Not applicable
- Serious financial loss
- Not considered
- Causation finding
- The court in the underlying action found that the defendant's breach of collateral warranty directly caused the claimant's loss of profits, awarding £3,580,097.
- Claimed loss
- Not recorded
- Accepted loss
- £3,580,097
- Total damages
- £3,876,830
- Turnover band
- Not recorded
- Outcome
- Freezing injunction continued against the corporate respondents subject to the claimant providing £10,000 per month fortification for its cross-undertaking in damages; discharged against the individual respondent on undertakings.
- Appeal status
- First instance
Why it matters
Highlights how courts treat commercial claimants with weak balance sheets (negative net assets) when granting freezing injunctions to secure large damages awards.
What this record does not tell you
- Any field shown as “not recorded” is genuinely absent from the record, not estimated.
- A damages award is not a measure of the claimant's commercial loss and is never used as one.
- Outcomes turn on their own facts; similarity to your situation is a matter for a solicitor.
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