“A solicitor who made her name helping people fight against closures of care homes abused her position by encouraging clients to protest against cut services, a tribunal has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The founder of a conferencing business breached his former employer’s database rights and misappropriated its confidential information, the High Court has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th September 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“The multimillionaire businessman Vivian Imerman won a court order yesterday preventing his estranged wife’s brothers – property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz – from using confidential information about his financial assets.”
The Independent, 1st August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The handing over of a set of stolen invoices from one dairy wholesaler to its most bitter rival was a breach of confidence, the High Court has ruled. The taking of the invoices by an ex-employee and their user by the rival broke the law, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th June 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Szuluk v United Kingdom (Application No 36936/05)
European Court of Human Rights
“In a unanimous judgment, the European Court of Human Rights held that monitoring, by the prison authorities of medical correspondence between a convicted prisoner and his external specialist doctor, violated the prisoner’s right for respect for his correspondence, as guaranteed by article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 17th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Napier and another v Pressdram Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 443; [2009] WLR (D) 172
“Where a complainant made a complaint against his solicitor to the Law Society the complainant owed no duty of confidentiality to the solicitor or his firm not to reveal to others the result of the adjudication where the subject matter underlying the adjudication contained no private information concerning the solicitor. The procedural nature of the investigation itself did not give rise to a duty of confidentiality.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The Guardian today lost a high court challenge to lift an emergency gagging order imposed on the publication of Barclays bank documents alleged to detail huge tax avoidance schemes.”
The Guardian, 19th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge is due to rule today on Barclays’ attempt to ban the Guardian from publishing whistleblower documents about the bank’s tax avoidance schemes.”
The Guardian, 19th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Barclays Capital will return to court tomorrow in a bid to prevent the publication of leaked documents that allegedly detail how the bank avoided paying hundreds of millions of pounds in tax.”
The Times, 17th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Barbara Ferraro took the family health records of her partner’s ex-wife and teenage daughter for him to see, which revealed both had undergone abdominal scans. The Health Professions Council hearing was told that the 44-year-old’s actions were a breach of patient confidentiality.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th February 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Source
“Information supplied by applicants for animal experimentation licences was exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 if the official in possession of the information knew or had reasonable grounds for believing that it was given in confidence, which was a subjective test requiring consideration of the position when the information was given and the intentions of the giver at that time, rather than an objective test derived from the law of confidentiality.”
WLR Daily, 31st July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Freelance journalist Shiv Malik must hand over his source material for a book on terrorism to Greater Manchester Police within seven days and pay legal costs, a judicial review of the case ruled yesterday.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Police were right to ask a journalist to reveal source material for a book about terrorism but the terms of the order obtained were too wide, the High Court has ruled. Arguments on what the terms of the ‘production order’ should be will be heard this week.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd June 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Greater Manchester police were justified in demanding that freelance journalist Shiv Malik hand over source material for a book on terrorism, but the terms of the production order were too wide, a judicial review of the case ruled today.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
This is the 6000th item posted on the Current Awareness blog.
“It was desirable that a litigant should be free to instruct the lawyer of his choice, particularly if that lawyer were already acting for him and he wished the lawyer to continue to act in a related matter. It was hard to conceive of circumstances where the fact that documents had been disclosed to lawyers acting for a party in one set of proceedings would preclude those lawyers from acting in other proceedings between the same parties.”
WLR Daily, 9th June 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Virgin Media Communications Ltd and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Group plc and Another
Court of Appeal
“It was desirable that a litigant should be free to instruct the lawyer of his choice, particularly if that lawyer was already acting for the litigant who wished him to act in a related manner. It was hard to conceive of circumstances where the fact that documents had been disclosed to lawyers acting for a party in one set of proceedings would preclude those lawyers from acting in other proceedings between the same parties.”
The Times, 11th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“An ex-employee of recruitment firm Hays has been ordered to disclose details of his profile at social networking site LinkedIn. Mark Ions set up a rival agency and is accused of using LinkedIn to steal clients. He says Hays encouraged his use of the site.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th June 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Prison staff bugged conversations between a convicted killer and his solicitor without authorisation, Jack Straw admitted yesterday.”
The Times, 16th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Two ministers have been left red-faced after documents taken to a Downing Street briefing were photographed and enlarged.”
BBC News Magazine, 14th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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