Information Protection in UK Law

  • Interdigital Technology Corporation v Lenovo Group Ltd
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 28 Junio 2023
    Public judgment. Third party licensees. Confidential information. Royalty rates. Unit rates
    ......Although InterDigital notified all those with an interest in information in the FRAND Judgment designated as confidential, some (about 10) did not ... to strike in my approach to redaction is between the continued protection of commercially sensitive information (in particular the rates and ......
  • Public Institution for Social Security v Al Wazzan and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 05 Mayo 2023
    Rules of international criminal mutual legal assistance as an abuse of right. Criminal proceedings. Disclosure order. Banking secrecy. Risk of prosecution
    ...... restriction to be justified by a risk of undue transmission of information between a bank and a state (Russia) that had requested mutual assistance. ... of its own citizens or of other persons who are under the protection of its laws .” In my view comity is capable of playing a freestanding ......
  • Michael Clifford v Millicom Services UK Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Enero 2023
    Fair trial rights of all parties. Public interest for the duty of confidence. Principle of open justice. Common law
    ...... restrict open justice by prohibiting the public disclosure of information deployed in the proceedings, where it is said that such disclosure would ... and public justice may be made: the interests of justice, the protection of a person's Convention rights, and the protection of confidentiality. ......
  • J.C. Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 Julio 2023
    Common law open justice principle. Claimed invention. Confidential information. Trade secret
    ...... at a public hearing on the ground that the documents contain information that is confidential to Manitou. The Claimant (“JCB”) cross-appeals ... and Council Directive 2016/943 /EU of 8 June 2016 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against ......
  • Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office
    • King's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 09 Octubre 2023
    Litigation privilege. Redacted information. Criminal investigation. Public interest
    ...... Court to sit in private if the hearing involves confidential information and publicity would damage that confidentiality. That application and ...The primary rationale for the public interest in the protection of sources is the risk that disclosing the identity of one source may ......
  • Eville & Jones (Group) Ltd v Dr Jason Aldiss
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 11 Febrero 2022
    Summary judgment. Reasonableness of the covenants in the shareholders agreement. Confidential information in breach of an equitable duty. Conditional order
    ...... the restrictive covenants and that he has misused confidential information in breach of an equitable duty of confidence. The Claimants allege that ... of a narrower ambit would have sufficed for the employer's protection, a non-competition clause will not be upheld. Thus, he submits that no ......
  • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and asylum chamber), 2018-09-21, [2018] UKUT 337 (IAC) (PA (Protection claim, Respondent’s enquiries, Bias))
    • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
    Judicial bias. General duty of confidentiality during the process. Protection claim. Country of origin. First-tier tribunal
    ......the Procedures Directive (2005/85/EC), as given effect in paragraph. 339IA of the Immigration Rules. So far as obtaining information is. concerned, these provisions prohibit making such an inquiry in a. manner that would result in alleged actors of persecution being. directly ......
  • Verition Advisors (UK Partners) LLP v Jump Trading International Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Junio 2023
    Interim injunctive relief. Speedy trial. Ground of appeal. Non-compete covenant
    ...... damage to Jump Trading by misuse of their confidential information. Jump Trading have applied to amend the claim. This court is not concerned .... . 22 There was no dispute that the protection of confidential information was a legitimate business interest and that Mr ......
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