This came out yesterday and I notice that their price started to drop of in the after noon. Note that the article comes from a Scottish Evening Paper


CLUB RIVALS TAKE BATTLE TO COURTS

GRAHAM LAWTHER

16:00 - 06 February 2004

Two rival nightclub companies in Aberdeen are suing each other amid allegations of tit-for-tat harassment.

The Aberdeen-based Epic Group and city newcomers Luminar Leisure have both taken the bitter dispute to the courts.

Epic and Luminar are each claiming that their employees are being intimidated by their rivals.

Three court actions have now been lodged.

Epic has applied to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to grant an interim interdict against Luminar Dancing Scotland Ltd.

Epic claims rival employees at Luminar's Liquid nightclub made derogatory comments in public about Epic's Ministry nightclub and staff.

Epic claims that Liquid promotional staff made the comments while they were touting for business and dishing out flyers for their venues on Union Street last year.

National chain Luminar, however, hit back with an almost identical action in the Court of Session, making similar allegations against Epic employees.

The judge, Lady Cosgrove, dismissed the Luminar writ last November.

But Luminar then returned to the Court of Session with a second plea for an interim interdict.

The second application for the court order is understood to have been sparked by a confrontation, on a separate occasion, on Union Street between Liquid and Ministry employees.

And in a third action at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, David Colville, Epic's manager of the Ministry nightclub in Aberdeen, has launched his own writ. Mr Colville alleges that comments by Liquid staff in a public place damaged his reputation.

He is seeking 10,000 damages from Luminar, and an interim interdict which would stop the rival company's staff from making further comments about him.

Mr Colville's writ was lodged in the wake of alleged incidents at the University of Aberdeen freshers' ball last September, where both nightclub companies were trying to attract potential clubbers