THE production company behind TV3’s new cookery programme was forced to make last-minute changes before it was broadcast last week after the High Court granted a cookery school an injunction preventing the use of its original name and logo.
The Home Cook’s Academy programme, presented by Angeline Ball, the former Commitments star, was alleged to have infringed the copyright of Cooks Academy, a cooking school based in Dublin’s South William Street.
On Monday, Judge Kevin Cross granted Tim Greenwood, the owner and director of the cookery school, a temporary injunction preventing TV3 and Vision Independent Productions (VIP) from using the programme’s original title and logo.
The case returns to the High Court on October 9.