A tailor has won an injunction banning a disgruntled business associate from coming within 300 metres of his shop.

Amit Daruka launched a protest accusing Gresham Blake Ltd of owing him £24,000 for work he did with the company. A claim that tailor Mr Blake, famous for dressing the likes of Steve Coogan, Norman Cook, and Krishnan Guru Murphy, strenuously denied.

After a lengthy legal battle and two court hearings the Bond Street business has won an injunction banning Mr Daruka from coming near the shop.

Mr Daruka started his protest outside the North Laine shop in June. Gresham and his wife Fal – also a director of the company – tried to negotiate an agreement with Mr Daruka, who had been contracted to make corporate shirts for the firm, but he refused to enter into discussions with them.

Since then Mr Daruka’s protest has lost the firm thousands of pounds in business, damaged their reputation and shop staff have faced harassment from members of the public who believed claims. Brighton County Court ruled on Tuesday that Mr Daruka’s protest was unlawful and banned him from going near the shop.

He was also banned from encouraging anyone else to protest within 200 metres of the shop, banned from harassing Gresham Blake’s staff, ordered to immediately remove a Facebook page linked to his protest and banned from making any others and ordered to pay Gresham Blake Ltd £2,540 court costs.

Mr Blake said: “We have tried to mediate to settle the matter. We do not think we owe any more. If Mr Daruka disagrees he is at liberty to issue a claim in the county court small claims track, so that the dispute can be sorted out in court in a civilised manner.

“Mr Daruka has refused to do this and has instead mounted what he calls a “peaceful protest” outside our shop. As a consequence our staff have suffered considerable harassment and abuse from third parties and our small business has suffered.

“We applied for an injunction and following two court hearings the court has found that this was an unlawful protest designed to achieve a commercial objective. Mr Daruka has been forbidden by the court from coming within 300 metres of our shop until August 2016.

“We will continue to run our business honestly and legally and will take whatever steps we can through the courts to protect our staff from harassment in future.”