Public Domain in UK Law

  • Hilton v Barker Booth & Eastwood (A Firm)
    • House of Lords
    • 03 February 2005
    ... ... I doubt whether a fact that is a matter of public record, such as a bankruptcy or a criminal conviction, can justify such a ... of Mr Bromage's bankruptcy and convictions although "in the public domain and in that sense … not confidential information" were information which ... ...
  • Fullam v Newcastle Chronicle and Journal Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 March 1977
    ... ... : and, secondly, that the extrinsic facts relied on are within the public domain, being matters of public record and of cannon knowledge, one may ... ...
  • EPI Environmental Technologies Inc. and Another v Symphony Plastic Technologies Plc and Another
    • Chancery Division
    • 21 December 2004
    ... ... and the information contained therein inadvertently coming into the public domain. Accordingly, I made an order that the trial should proceed in ... ...
  • Alastair Brett v The Solicitors Regulation Authority
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 11 September 2014
    ... ... come in to conflict, the factor determining precedence must be the public interest, and especially the public interest in the administration of ... information could be obtained through information in the public domain ... 20 PF told Mr Brett that he thought that ... ...
  • Cooper-Hohn v Hohn
    • Family Division
    • 07 July 2014
    ... ... and until the press have secured the court's permission to make public such aspects of the proceedings as they might wish to publish (the ... the case were by then, to a significant extent, within the public domain as a result of its recent journey to the Court of Appeal. It appears that ... ...
  • Maharaj v Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd
    • Privy Council
    • 20 May 2019
    ... ... title of the FOIA is: “An Act to give members of the public a general right (with exceptions) of access to official documents of ... by another party in the proceedings not otherwise in the public domain — save and to the extent that disclosure may be required of a party by ... ...
  • Macris v Financial Conduct Authority
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 March 2017
    ... ... 393 covers the same ground as the general obligation imposed by public law to give those affected sufficient notice to enable them to make ... concerned but simply whether there is information in the public domain that incontrovertibly links the description in the Final Notice" to, in ... ...
  • Re B (Children)
    • Family Division
    • 18 February 2008
    ... ... is nothing to prevent Mrs B or J or W identifying themselves in public as people involved in the care proceedings brought by Blackpool Council ... or the use the media make of all the information in the public domain, including all the matters referred to in the judgment of 16 August 2004 ... ...
  • AF ( “Warlords/commanders”- evidence expected)
    • Immigration Appeals Tribunal
    • 15 October 2004
    ... ... bear in mind that there is a great deal more information in the public domain about Kabul, which is also the point of return, than about areas ... ...
  • CVB v MGN Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 03 May 2012
    ... ... by the court, or referred to, at a hearing which has been held in public." ... 7 CPR r.23 provides: ... publication of details of a case which are normally in the public domain, certain principles were identified by the Judge, and which, together with ... ...
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