Category: disclosure

Mark Kennedy’s secret tapes: CPS launches wide-ranging inquiry – The Guardian

Posted July 13th, 2011 in Crown Prosecution Service, disclosure, inquiries, misfeasance in public office, news, police by sally

“A leading former judge has been appointed to lead an expanded inquiry into claims that prosecutors suppressed secret surveillance tapes recorded by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy.Sir Christopher Rose, a retired court of appeal judge noted for his fierce independence, will head the inquiry which was set up by the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC.”

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The Guardian, 13th July 2011

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National Grid sues for access to engineering cartel papers – The Guardian

Posted July 8th, 2011 in competition, disclosure, news, pleadings by sally

“National Grid is battling in London’s high court for access to secret documents relating to its £235m cartel case against a group of Europe’s top engineering companies.”

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The Guardian, 7th July 2011

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Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors want Baby Peter inquiry – BBC News

Posted July 1st, 2011 in child abuse, disclosure, hospitals, inquiries, news by sally

“Doctors have demanded a government investigation into why London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital kept information from the original Baby Peter inquiry.”

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BBC News, 1st July 2011

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Celebrities can be given hacking surveillance notes, High Court rules – Daily Telegraph

Posted June 28th, 2011 in disclosure, documents, interception, news, telecommunications by sally

“Lawyers of celebrities who suspect that phone messages were intercepted by News of the World journalists can be given material from ‘surveillance’ notes seized by police, a High Court judge said today (27 June).”

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Daily Telegraph, 27th June 2011

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Sunday Times loses libel disclosure battle with police – The Guardian

Posted June 21st, 2011 in defamation, disclosure, media, news, police by sally

“The Sunday Times has lost a court battle to force the commissioner of the Metropolitan police and the Serious Organised Crime Agency to disclose confidential documents which the newspaper could use as evidence in a libel trial next month.”

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The Guardian, 21st June 2011

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Pfleiderer AG v Bundeskartellamt – WLR Daily

Posted June 20th, 2011 in competition, disclosure, EC law, evidence, law reports by sally

Pfleiderer AG v Bundeskartellamt (Case C-360/09); [2011] WLR (D) 196

“A person adversely affected by an infringement of European Union competition law was not precluded by the provisions of that law from being granted access to documents relating to the leniency procedure for the purposes of bringing a civil action for damages.”

WLR Daily, 14th June 2011

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Appeal court orders search of Galloway’s charity papers – The Independent

Posted May 16th, 2011 in charities, disclosure, freedom of information, Iraq, news by sally

“Civil servants have been ordered to reconsider disclosing thousands of documents relating to a fund run by former MP George Galloway during Saddam Hussein’s regime.”

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The Independent, 14th May 2011

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Social networking sites consider UK court ruling – The Independent

Posted May 16th, 2011 in disclosure, foreign jurisdictions, injunctions, internet, news by sally

“Social networking sites based abroad are tonight (13 May) considering whether to comply with a British court ruling seeking to ban their members from revealing the identities of parties involved in sensitive legal proceedings in London.”

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The Independent, 13th May 2011

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North Shore Ventures Ltd v Anstead Holdings Inc and others – WLR Daily

Posted April 20th, 2011 in civil procedure rules, disclosure, evidence, law reports, private hearings by sally

North Shore Ventures Ltd v Anstead Holdings Inc and others [2011] EWHC 910 (Ch); [2011] WLR (D) 138

“Para 1.5 of Practice Direction 39A supplementing CPR Pt 39 did not deem a hearing to be in private which had not been listed as a private matter. The general rule for proceedings to be held in public unless otherwise stated applied to proceedings not listed in private.”

WLR Daily, 13th April 2011

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Kenyans sue UK for alleged colonial human rights abuses – The Guardian

Posted April 6th, 2011 in disclosure, government departments, human rights, Kenya, news by sally

“Highly embarrassing colonial-era files detailing the British army’s repressive tactics against Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya during the 1950s will be revealed in a landmark compensation case.”

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The Guardian, 5th April 2011

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MoD lobbied secretly to cut legal aid for cases against its treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan – The Guardian

Posted April 6th, 2011 in Afghanistan, disclosure, Iraq, legal aid, news, terrorism, torture by sally

“The Ministry of Defence lobbied behind closed doors to restrict the provision of legal aid to claimants questioning the treatment of military detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, the high court has heard.”

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The Guardian, 5th April 2011

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The Lawyer’s great debate: e-disclosure – The Lawyer

Posted March 21st, 2011 in civil procedure rules, disclosure, electronic filing, news by sally

“One of the biggest issues in litigation management at the moment is e-disclosure.”

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The Lawyer, 21st March 2011

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Standard Life Assurance Ltd and another v Topland Col Ltd and others – WLR Daily

Posted March 21st, 2011 in confidentiality, disclosure, injunctions, law reports, Serious Fraud Office by sally

Standard Life Assurance Ltd and another v Topland Col Ltd and others [2010] EWHC 1781 (Ch); [2011] WLR (D) 92

“The disclosure of information by a person to the Serious Fraud Office (‘SFO’) pursuant to the latter’s statutory powers under the Criminal Justice Act 1987 did not give rise to any implied undertaking to any court not to use the documents other than for the purposes of a prosecution, actual or potential, or any undertaking to the court not to provide them to any person other than through one of the gateways under section 3 of the Act.”

WLR Daily, judgment reissued 14th March 2011

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Tessa Jowell goes to court to find out who hacked into her phone – The Independent

Posted March 18th, 2011 in disclosure, interception, news, telecommunications by sally

“Former cabinet minister Tessa Jowell has begun legal proceedings which could see her name added to the list of public figures suing the News of the World for alleged phone hacking.”

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The Independent, 18th March 2011

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North Shore Ventures Ltd v Anstead Holdings Inc and others – WLR Daily

Posted March 11th, 2011 in debts, disclosure, law reports, surety by sally

“A creditor was under a duty to disclose to the surety any contract or other dealing between creditor and debtor which changed the position of the debtor from that which the surety might naturally have expected, but was not under a duty to disclose to the surety other matters relating to the debtor which might be material for the surety to know.”

WLR Daily, 10th March 2011

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CMCS Common Market Commercial Services AVV v Taylor; Taylor v Stoutt and others – WLR Daily

Posted February 25th, 2011 in costs, disclosure, law reports, privilege, solicitors by sally

CMCS Common Market Commercial Services AVV v Taylor; Taylor v Stoutt and others [2011] EWHC 324 (Ch); [2011] WLR (D) 57

“There was no difference in principle between the ambit of a solicitor’s duty to the court in relation to the conduct and supervision of disclosure of documents and the conduct and supervision of any redaction of disclosable doccuments prior to inspection.”

WLR Daily, 24th February 2011

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Phone hacking: now judge tells police to stop protecting names – The Independent

Posted February 25th, 2011 in disclosure, interception, news, police, privacy, telecommunications by sally

“The likelihood of further News of the World (NotW) journalists being dragged into the phone-hacking scandal increased yesterday when a judge ruled that names believed to belong to the paper’s employees should no longer be blanked out on key documents.”

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The Independent, 25th February 2011

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Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police v Information Commissioner – WLR Daily

Posted January 28th, 2011 in disclosure, fees, freedom of information, law reports by sally

Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police v Information Commissioner [2011] EWHC 44 (Admin); [2011] WLR (D) 19

“In estimating whether the cost of complying with a request for information would exceed the appropriate limit for the purposes of claiming exemption from the obligation to comply in reliance on section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, a public authority was not permitted by regulation 4 of the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 to take account of time which it expected to spend in redacting exempt information from relevant documents before disclosing them to the applicant.”

WLR Daily, 27th January 2011

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Ex-Guantánamo inmates take on MI5 and MI6 over courtoom secrecy – The Guardian

Posted January 25th, 2011 in disclosure, news, private hearings, public interest, terrorism by sally

“An attempt by MI5 and MI6 to extend courtroom secrecy has led to a legal battle at the supreme court, with lawyers representing former Guantánamo inmates and the media denouncing the proposal as ‘unconstitutional and excessive’.”

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The Guardian, 24th January 2011

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Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and another (No 2) – WLR Daily

Posted January 24th, 2011 in affidavits, civil procedure rules, disclosure, evidence, law reports by sally

Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and another (No 2) [2011] EWCA Civ 21; [2011] WLR (D) 11

“Save in exceptional circumstances, para 4.2 of the Practice Direction supporting CPR Pt 32 required the deponent of an affidavit to identify the source of the relevant information or belief stated in the affidavit. If the source was a person that person must, save in exceptional circumstances, be identified with sufficient certainty to enable to person against whom the affidavit was directed to investigate the information or belief in accordance with the rules of court or other relevant legal principles.”

WLR Daily, 21st Janaury 2011

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