Public Interest Privilege in UK Law

  • Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 October 1999
    ... ... all the circumstances, it was not in the public interest for the newspaper to have published the ... : the meaning of the article, qualified privilege at common law, justification, malice and damages ... ...
  • R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
    • House of Lords
    • 22 June 1995
    ... ... questions concerning legal professional privilege and the scope of section 97 of the Magistrates' ... but certified points of law of general public importance. This appeal was presented by leave of ... that it was his duty to weigh the public interest which protects confidential communications ... ...
  • Science Research Council v Nassé ; Leyland Cars Ltd v Vyas
    • House of Lords
    • 01 November 1979
    ... ... This form of report, commonly used in the public service, is made by the employee's immediate ... There is no principle of public interest immunity, as that expression was developed from ... discovery of documents with no claim to privilege or immunity from production; and the documents ... ...
  • Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer; Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer (No. 3)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 June 1980
    ... ... grown up rules about legal professional privilege, public interest and the like: These we have to ... ...
  • D. (Married Woman) (Respondent) v National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Appellants)
    • House of Lords
    • 02 February 1977
    ... ... To prevent the public and private wrongs of children, and the ... that it is neither in the child's interest or the public interest to do so, or that some ... the proposition that the basis of all privilege from disclosure of documents or information in ... ...
  • Jameel and Others v Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl
    • House of Lords
    • 11 October 2006
    ... ... of what has come to be called Reynolds privilege, an important form of qualified privilege ... and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This ... the requirement of a reciprocal duty and interest between the publisher and the recipient of the ... ...
  • Three Rivers District Council and Others v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No 9)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 November 2004
    ... ... Inquiry qualify for legal professional privilege? It is contended by the respondents, and was held ... be overridden by some supposedly greater public interest. It can be waived by the person, the ... ...
  • Lincoln v Daniels
    • Court of Appeal
    • 17 July 1961
    ... ... There had beer, no plea of qualified privilege and no question of malice arose for the jury's ... 15 Mr Daniels is a member of the public. He appears to be a successful man of business ... judicial process to which in the public interest absolute privilege attaches to the full extent) ... ...
  • Air Canada v Secretary of State for Trade
    • House of Lords
    • 10 March 1983
    ... ... of which would be injurious to the public interest ... 2 The ... very existence of legal professional privilege and of public interest immunity constitutes ... ...
  • B v Auckland District Law Society
    • Privy Council
    • 19 May 2003
    ... ... any claim to legal professional privilege which may subsist in them. The judge held that it ... him in a disciplinary hearing conducted in public ... 15 The second respondent Mr Gary ... in relation to the Society's public interest defence. The judge acknowledged that the ... ...
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