Duty of Confidentiality in UK Law
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Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
... ... "(1) Were the 'Observer' and 'The Guardian' in breach of their duty of confidentiality when, on 22 and 23 June 1986, they respectively ... ...
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Swinney v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Force
... ... the police officer was given in confidence, and that, as a result, a duty of confidentiality was either implied (for which purpose the Plaintiffs ... ...
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Associated Newspapers Ltd v His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
... ... She had given the usual undertakings as to confidentiality. She had been dismissed following a disciplinary hearing in relation to ... would seem to accord with the view of the Strasbourg court as to the duty of the court as a public authority – see Von Hannover v Germany (2005) ... ...
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Breakspear and Others v Ackland and another
... ... That advantage may be summarised in the word confidentiality, so long as it is appreciated that the word has both a subjective and an ... & G 440 , Lord Truro LC held that the court's duty of supervision was: “… confined to the question of ... ...
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Marcel and Others v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and Others
... ... Vice-chancellor do not, in my judgment, absolve the police from the duty which police officers share with every other citizen to obey the orders of ... But it would not include any such ground of confidentiality as between the police and the true owner or abuse of power as have been ... ...
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Re Z (A Minor) (Freedom of Publication)
... ... 7 1. He rejected Mr Robertson Q.C.'s submission that confidentiality extended only to the professional obligations owed to a patient and that ... ad litem for the child and consequently he held that:- "The duty of confidentiality does go beyond the medical field. However, I consider ... ...
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Ridehalgh v Horsefield; Watson v Watson (Wasted Costs Orders)
... ... 11 (3) The law imposes a duty on lawyers to exercise reasonable care and skill in conducting their ... that he may be hampered in doing so by his duty of confidentiality to the client "from which he can only be released by his client or by ... ...
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Bankers Trust Company v Shapira
... ... wrong-doing he may incur no personal liability but he comes under a duty to assist the person who has been wronged by giving him full information ... part of the court to order the bank to break their duty of confidentiality. It was going further, he said, than an Anton Piller order because, when ... ...
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R v Commissioners of Inland Revenue, ex parte National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd
... ... between taxpayers and has not done so; and that the Board is under a duty to see that Income Tax is duly assessed, charged, and collected ... 2 ... The total confidentiality of assessments and of negotiations between individuals and the Revenue is ... ...
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Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... a book of his memoirs entitled Spycatcher in breach of his duty of confidentiality to the Crown, and the sustained but ultimately ... ...
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