The Court Of Appeal in London has upheld a 2006 decision regarding claims made by one John Hillman over some of the recordings of Jimi Hendrix. The decision being that he doesn't have any legitimate claim.
Hillman served as an attorney to Hendrix's manager Michael Jeffrey in the late sixties and early seventies, and oversaw a company called Yameta which acted as a Bahamian tax shelter for some of Hendrix and Jeffrey's affairs. Yameta was closed down after the deaths of both Hendrix and Jeffrey in the early seventies, but in the early nineties Hillman started to make some claims to ownership of Hendrix's music based on agreements from the early seventies. He even made agreements with other companies based on those alleged agreements - in particular with London label Purple Haze who attempted to release some unheard Hendrix recordings.
However, all of Hillman's claims were disputed by the Experience Hendrix company, the company run by Hendrix's estate which administrates the late singer/guitarist's music and trademarks. Having had legal run-ins with the likes of Purple Haze because of Hillman's deals, they took legal action against him directly, winning at the High Court last year. Hillman appealed the ruling that said he had no legitimate claim to Hendrix's musical legacy, but the appeal courts this week reaffirmed the original ruling.