Attorney General v Blake
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 19 April 1996 |
Date | 19 April 1996 |
Court | Chancery Division |
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17 cases
- Dream Property Sdn Bhd v Atlas Housing Sdn Bhd
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Marathon Asset Management LLP and Another v James Seddon and Others
...by Blake as a member of the intelligence services, the Crown had not alleged or shown that this information remained confidential: see [1997] Ch 84. When the case reached the House of Lords, the Crown did not maintain that Blake was in breach of a fiduciary duty but relied on the fact that,......
- Muniandy a/l Nadasan and Others v Dato’ Prem Krishna Sahgal and Others
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Others v David Harris and Others
...of confidence, destroys the confidential nature of the information entrusted to him". 24 Scott V-C returned to the topic briefly in Attorney-General v Blake [1997] Ch 84, which concerned an autobiography written by a Mr George Blake, who had been a Soviet agent as well as a member of the S......
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10 books & journal articles
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An Old Snail in a New Bottle? Waiver of Tort as An Independent Cause of Action
...That business belonged to the [employer]. The [defendant] was in breach of its contractual obligation.”) 215 Attorney General v. Blake, [1997] Ch. 84, rev’d on other grounds [1998] Ch. 439 (C.A.), aff’d [2001] A.C. 268 (H.L.) [Blake]. 80 T H E CAN ADI AN C L A SS ACT ION R E V IE W by Lord ......
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Waiving Goodbye: The Rise and Imminent Fall of Waiver of Tort in Class Proceedings
...That business belonged to the [employer]. The [defendant] was in breach of its contractual obligation.”) 215 Attorney General v. Blake, [1997] Ch. 84, rev’d on other grounds [1998] Ch. 439 (C.A.), aff’d [2001] A.C. 268 (H.L.) [Blake]. 80 T H E CAN ADI AN C L A SS ACT ION R E V IE W by Lord ......
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Strategies to Avoid Or Mitigate Class Action Litigation
...That business belonged to the [employer]. The [defendant] was in breach of its contractual obligation.”) 215 Attorney General v. Blake, [1997] Ch. 84, rev’d on other grounds [1998] Ch. 439 (C.A.), aff’d [2001] A.C. 268 (H.L.) [Blake]. 80 T H E CAN ADI AN C L A SS ACT ION R E V IE W by Lord ......
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Preliminary Merits Review for Class Actions in Ontario: Thanks, But No Thanks!
...That business belonged to the [employer]. The [defendant] was in breach of its contractual obligation.”) 215 Attorney General v. Blake, [1997] Ch. 84, rev’d on other grounds [1998] Ch. 439 (C.A.), aff’d [2001] A.C. 268 (H.L.) [Blake]. 80 T H E CAN ADI AN C L A SS ACT ION R E V IE W by Lord ......
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