Calcraft v Guest

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1898
Date1898
CourtCourt of Appeal

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  • JP Morgan Multi-Strategy Fund LP v Macro Fund Ltd
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • May 30, 2003
    ...referred to. (8) Briamore Manufacturing Ltd., Re, WLR[1986] 1 W.L.R. 1429; [1986] 3 All E.R. 132, referred to. (9) Calcraft v. Guest, [1898] 1 Q.B. 759; (1898), 78 L.T. 283, not followed. (10) Copeland v. WattsENR(1815), 1 Stark. 95; 171 E.R. 412, referred to. (11) Corsen v. DuboisENR(1816)......
  • Gelatissimo Ventures (S) Pte Ltd v Singapore Flyer Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • October 21, 2009
    ...forwarded the email to the defendant without reservations. In the alternative, the defendant relied on the case of Calcraft v Guest [1898] 1 QB 759 to contend that the privilege in a document is lost once it has been disclosed. Finally, the defendant argued that even if the privilege in the......
  • Schneider v Leigh
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • March 30, 1955
    ...and the Court is not concerned with what might happen if it had been waived. Sir Nathaniel Lindley, Master of the Rolls, said in Calcraft v. Guest, reported in 1898 1 Queen's Bench Division at page 759, at page 701: "I take it that, as a general rule, one may say once privileged, always pri......
  • R v Governor of Pentonville Prison, ex parte Osman
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • March 30, 1988
    ... ... 310A–B , D–F , G–H ) ... Calcraft v. Guest [ 1898 ] 1 Q.B. 759 , C.A. applied ... (7) That police powers of search and seizure consequent on a lawful arrest were the same ... ...
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8 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 11-4, October 2007
    • October 1, 2007
    .... . . 53C plc v P [2006] EWHC 1226 (Ch). . . . . . . . . . . . 60C plc v P [2007] EWCA Crim 1339. . . . . . . . . . 335Calcraft v Guest [1898] 1 QB 759. . . . . . . . . . . 323Carter v Managing Partner of NorthmoreHale Davy & Leake (1995) 183 CLR 121. . . 323Celanese Canada Inc. v Murray De......
  • Public policy and private illegality in the pursuit of evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 21-1-2, January 2017
    • January 1, 2017
    ...609; Lloyd vMostyn (1842) 10 M & W 478; Phelps vPrew (1854) 3 E & B 430 at 441; Rattray vRattray(1897) 25 R 315 at 318; Calcraft vGuest [1898] 1 QB 759; Crook vDuncan (1899) 1 F (J) 50 at 52; Ashburton vPape [1913]2 Ch 469 at 473; Hodgson vMacpherson (1913) 7 Adam 118 at 125. Cf, Bell vBlac......
  • Privileges, Protections, and Immunities
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Evidence. Eighth Edition
    • June 25, 2020
    ...& Infrastructure Renewal) v Peach , 2011 NSCA 27. 37 With respect to solicitor-client communications, see Calcraft v Guest , [1898] 1 QB 759 (CA). THE LAW OF EVIDENCE 296 involved in the privileged relationship are obliged to safeguard their communications; if they do not, then the privileg......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Evidence. Eighth Edition
    • June 25, 2020
    ...(Central Area), [1997] 9 WWR 167 (Man CA).....................................................................288 Calcraft v Guest, [1898] 1 QB 759 (CA) ............................................................. 295 Calgary and Edmonton Ry Co v McKinnon (1910), 43 SCR 379 .....................
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