Information in UK Law

  • Oakley Inc. v Animal Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Octubre 2005
    ... ... could be lost by a single item of the design in question entering the UK in the hands of someone free in law and equity to use the information embodied in the design. That is what has happened here. The registered design in question was registered under the old law. Someone free to make use ... ...
  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Octubre 1988
    ... ... obligation of confidence owed to a foreign government so as to protect that government's intelligence secrets and confidential political information. In the meantime Spycatcher had on 14 July 1987 been published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc., a subsidiary of an English ... ...
  • South Australian Asset Management Corporation v York Montague Ltd ; United Bank of Kuwait Plc v Prudential Property Services Ltd ; Nykredit Mortgage Bank Plc v Edward Erdman Group Ltd (Formerly Edward Erdman an Unlimited Company)
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Junio 1996
    ... ... 11 The lender sues on a contract under which the valuer, in return for a fee, undertakes to provide him with certain information. Precisely what information he has to provide depends of course upon the terms of the individual contract. There is some dispute on this point in ... ...
  • Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Diciembre 1985
    ... ... (2) The duty of an employee not to use or disclose after his employment has ceased any confidential information which he has obtained during his employment about his employer's affairs. (3) The prima facie right of any person ... ...
  • Bolkiah (Prince Jefri) v KPMG (A Firm)
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Diciembre 1999
    ... ... A solicitor is under a duty not to communicate to others any information in his possession which is confidential to the former client. But the duty extends well beyond that of refraining from deliberate disclosure. It is ... ...
  • Associated Newspapers Ltd v His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 2006
    ... ... restriction is justified under Article 10(2) as necessary to protect his right to privacy, his copyright and to prevent the disclosure of information received in confidence ... 3 Blackburne J's Order was made in proceedings for summary judgment brought by Prince ... ...
  • Karen Kilraine v London Borough of Wandsworth
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Junio 2018
    ... ... principal issue of law in the case relates to the circumstances in which allegations made by an employee may constitute disclosure of “information” by the employee for the purposes of section 43B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (as inserted by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998) and the ... ...
  • Balabel v Air India
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 Marzo 1988
    ... ... On the other hand, documents which simply record information or transactions, with or without instructions to carry them into execution, or which record meetings at which the plaintiffs were present, are not ... ...
  • Jameel and Others v Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Octubre 2006
    ... ... This information was attributed to "U.S. officials and Saudis familiar with the issue". In the second paragraph a number of companies and individuals were named, ... ...
  • R v David Michael Shayler
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Marzo 2002
    ... ... He has been indicted on three counts charging him with unlawful disclosure of documents and information contrary to sections 1 and 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1989. Moses J, exercising a power conferred by section 29(1) of the Criminal Procedure and ... ...
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