Common Interest Privilege in UK Law
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Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... circumstances, it was not in the public interest for the newspaper to have published the ... 862 , 869-873. It was common ground before your Lordships that by instituting ... : the meaning of the article, qualified privilege at common law, justification, malice and damages ... ...
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Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer; Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer (No. 3)
... ... grown up rules about legal professional privilege, public interest and the like: These we have to ... is a privilege which may be called a "common interest" privilege. That is a privilege in aid ... ...
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Balabel v Air India
... ... point concerning legal professional privilege. Boardly, the issue is whether such privilege ... 15 It is common ground that the basic principle justifying legal ... privilege arises from the public interest requiring full and frank exchange of confidence ... ...
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Avonwick Holdings Ltd v Shlosberg
... ... to Mr Shlosberg's legal professional privilege ("privilege"), and which the Trustees wished ... for the recovery of the Globoid loan and interest ("the Globoid arbitration"). The Globoid ... [7]) that it was common ground that legal professional privilege is a ... ...
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R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
... ... questions concerning legal professional privilege and the scope of section 97 of the Magistrates' ... to section 97 in criminal proceedings for common assault. The alleged victim was a child resident ... that it was his duty to weigh the public interest which protects confidential communications ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council and Others v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 9)
... ... Bank have claimed legal professional privilege for numerous documents which came into existence ... ," said the learned Judges in the Common Pleas, "if it could be doubted whether or not an ... and the various aspects of the public interest which claim attention, I have come to the ... ...
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Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... important issues as to qualified privilege, and a further cross-appeal relating to costs ... of the coalition was a matter of public interest in Great Britain as well as in Ireland ... ministers on Monday 14 November, but it is common ground that Mr Reynolds did not see it until ... ...
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Loutchansky v Times Newspapers Ltd (No. 2)
... ... as to the correct approach to qualified privilege following the House of Lords' decision in ... information regarding matters of public interest and that there is a corresponding interest on the ... attracts qualified privilege at common law should be decided simply by asking whether in ... ...
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Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd v Maxwell; Cooper v Maxwell; Mirror Group Newspapers Plc v Maxwell
... ... not entitled to rely on the well-known privilege against self-incrimination and consequently to ... 1988 been the investment trustee of a common investment fund then established for the Mirror ... 1991 and the other a payment of £21,000 interest on the £50m. to Bankers Trust Company on 29th ... ...
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Jameel and Others v Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl
... ... of what has come to be called Reynolds privilege, an important form of qualified privilege ... the requirement of a reciprocal duty and interest between the publisher and the recipient of the ... said (at p 202) that— "the common law solution is for the court to have regard to ... ...
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