Bourns Inc. v Raychem Corporation and Another (No.3)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Judgment Date1999
Year1999
Date1999

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  • Steele v Harland and Wolff PLC and Short Brothers
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland)
    • 13 December 2002
    ... ... reports, one dated 19th January 2001 and another dated 13th August 2001. In those reports it is ... states that the decision was criticised in Bourns v Raychem [1999] 1 All ER 908. I do not find ... ...
  • Instance and Others v Denny Bros Printing Ltd and Others (Interim Injunction)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 21 December 1999
    ... ... , David John Instance Ltd and Moss Printing Inc, for an interim injunction preventing the ... ...
  • Eurasian Natural Resources Corpn Ltd v Dechert LLP [Ch D]
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 24 October 2014
    ...his privilege in any subsequent context." 41 This principle was approved by the Court of Appeal in Bourns Inc v Raychen Corp [1999] 3 All ER 154, where a submission that the above passage was obiter was rejected. In that case, an American company that received documents by way of voluntary ......
  • Property Alliance Group Ltd v The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 20 November 2015
    ...does not require the existence of a legal duty of confidence but is better characterised in the words used by Aldous LJ in Bourns v Raychem [1999] All ER 154 p167–8 as something "not properly available for use". RBS maintained that in English law, confidentiality is a prerequisite for litig......
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  • A Practitioner's Perspective On Cyber Investigations In The United Kingdom
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 11 August 2025
    ...Regina v. Derby Magistrates' Court, Ex parte B [1996] A.C. 487 at para 508. 106 Re Duncan (Deceased) [1968] P 306. 107 Bourns Inc v. Raychem Corp (No 3) [1999] 3 All ER 154. 108 Waugh v. British Railways Board [1980] A.C. 521. 109 SFO Director v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limit......
  • Privilege Not Lost Despite Opponent Obtaining Copies Of Documents In Foreign Proceedings
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 28 March 2022
    ...Resources Ltd v Lebedev [2014] EWHC 2185 (Comm) (considered here) and the Court of Appeal's decision in Bourns Inc v Raychem Corp [1999] 3 All ER 154 (which Blair J applied) were authority that English law governs the effect of a loss of privilege in a foreign jurisdiction on the admissibil......