Duty of Confidentiality in UK Law
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U.K. Employment Law Update: Tribunal Compensation Limits, Duty of Confidentiality and Protected Disclosures
Raising Rates: U.K. Employment Tribunal Compensation Limits and National Minimum Wage 2019 - The annual increases in compensation in the Employment Tribunals will take effect on 6 April 2019.
- Court Rules That A Lender Owes A Duty Of Confidentiality To Its Borrowers, And Should Be Held Liable For Damages In The Event That Such A Duty Is Breached
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English High Court: Public Interest Outweighed Confidentiality of Arbitration
Non-parties are entitled to obtain documents related to an arbitration if the case falls within the “interests of justice” exception. In The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators v B, C and D, the ...... ... Applying CPR 5.4C(2), the court balanced the Institute’s legitimate interests in obtaining copies of the documents with the duty of confidentiality in arbitration proceedings. The court held that the general public interest “in maintaining the quality of and standards of ... ...
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UK Supreme Court clarifies English law on arbitrators’ duties of impartiality, disclosure and confidentiality
In Halliburton Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd [2020] UKSC 48, the Supreme Court recognised for the first time that there is an ongoing, statutory duty in English law, which requires arbitrat...... ... Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd [2020] UKSC 48, the Supreme Court recognised for the first time that there is an ongoing, statutory duty in English law, which requires arbitrators to disclose facts or circumstances which would, or might reasonably, give rise to justifiable doubts as to ... ...
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Doctors, The DVLA, And A Duty To Disclose?
... ... Implications also arise for the GMC in approaching the conflict between a doctor's duty of confidentiality and their duty of public protection ... Following the accident there was significant press focus on the supposed failings of medical ... ...
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Employers' Liability For Employees' Confidentiality Breaches
... ... determine whether a third party recipient of information (such as, ... here, an employer) owes a duty of confidentiality to the owner of ... that information ... Walker Morris' Commercial Dispute Resolution and Employment ... specialists Rebecca ... ...
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Conflicting Duties When Is Confidentiality Not Absolute?
... ... v St George's Healthcare NHS Trust and Others [2017] EWCA Civ 336, the Court of Appeal found that it was fair, just and reasonable to impose a duty of care on a doctor to inform a patient's daughter that he had Huntington's disease, in breach of patient confidentiality ... In 2007 the ... ...
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Something Old Government Responds To Two Consultations
... ... One focussed on the use of confidentiality clauses (sometimes referred to as NDAs), particularly when settling ... to regulated health and legal professionals who owe the individual a duty of confidentiality; Require confidentiality clauses to set out their ... ...
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Is Arbitration Confidential?
... ... The second assumption, since the 1990s, is not. Confidentiality - which is concerned with the parties' obligation to each other not to ... , the courts in those jurisdictions rejected the concept of an overall duty of confidentiality in arbitration. This led to a debate about ... ...
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Unearthing The Pitch-Side Mole: How To Protect Confidential Information In Sport
... ... be prudent for clubs to ensure that employees are under an express duty to keep confidential any information of a confidential nature obtained ... practice, it would also be advisable for clubs to include confidentiality obligations that survive termination of the employee's employment. This is ... ...
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