Confidentiality Agreement in UK Law

  • Morris-Garner and another v One Step (Support) Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 April 2018
    ... ... They entered into a shareholders' agreement which included provision for dealing with a deadlock between the directors ... defendant had also acted in breach of the contractual confidentiality clause and an equitable duty of confidence by appropriating the market ... ...
  • Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2000
    ... ... Its agreement with Miss Hunniford contained a confidentiality clause which had the ... ...
  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 October 1988
    ... ... 'Observer' and 'The Guardian' in breach of their duty of confidentiality when, on 22 and 23 June 1986, they respectively published articles on the ... 14 I find myself is broad agreement with this statement by Mason J. In particular I agree that a government is ... ...
  • Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG v Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 11 June 2010
    ... ... ) £4.9 million equity provided by RBS pursuant to a Subscription Agreement between RBS and RBSFT and (b) a £138.5 million Senior Credit Facility ... On the same day RBS (Chris Parsons) duly e-mailed her a confidentiality agreement, invitation letter and information memorandum, which Ms Warren ... ...
  • Breakspear and Others v Ackland and another
    • Chancery Division
    • 19 February 2008
    ... ... That advantage may be summarised in the word confidentiality, so long as it is appreciated that the word has both a subjective and an ... intended course of history, rather than merely for re-writing an agreement, deed or other document so as to reflect the common intention of the ... ...
  • Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... , already paid Blake about £60,000 under the publishing agreement. In practice that money is irrecoverable. A further substantial amount, in ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... business relations or a breach of its equitable right to confidentiality in photographic images of the wedding. (c) In ... company to fit its vehicles with tyres in accordance with its agreement with GWK. Nowadays we would not regard the fact that this was achieved by ... ...
  • Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 December 1985
    ... ... of his service, and not the subject of any relevant express agreement, may fall as regards confidence into any of three classes. First there is ... information which is of a sufficiently high degree of confidentiality as to amount to a trade secret. The obligation does not ... ...
  • Somerville and Others v Scottish Ministers (HM Advocate General for Scotland intervening)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 October 2007
    ... ... By agreement between the parties, counsel for the petitioners were permitted to ... in a "protocol", under conditions of the strictest confidentiality, senior counsel for the petitioners was allowed to inspect the complete ... ...
  • Science Research Council v Nassé ; Leyland Cars Ltd v Vyas
    • House of Lords
    • 01 November 1979
    ... ... which documents are protected from discovery by reason of confidentiality alone. But there is no reason why, in the exercise of its discretion to ... The above conclusions are essentially in agreement with those of the Court of Appeal. I venture to think however that the ... ...
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