Anton Piller order
noun English Law
A court order which requires the defendant in proceedings to permit the plaintiff or his or her legal representatives to enter the defendant’s premises in order to obtain evidence essential to the plaintiff’s case.This expression is apt to cover Mareva injunctions and Anton Piller orders, as well as the appointment of a receiver....
- Whenever the court grants an Anton Piller order or an interlocutory injunction, unless the contrary is expressly said, the plaintiff will be taken to have given the usual undertaking in damages by implication.
- Yes, but what do you say circumscribes Justice O'Loughlin's jurisdiction to grant an Anton Piller order in an action between two companies, one of which is asserting that the other is passing off?
Origin
1970s: named after Anton Piller, German manufacturers of electric motors, who were involved in legal proceedings (1975) in which such an order was granted.