Imerman v Tchenguiz and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeSir David Keene
Judgment Date29 July 2010
Neutral Citation[2010] EWCA Civ 126,[2010] EWCA Civ 908
Docket NumberCase No: A2/2009/2133
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date29 July 2010
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104 cases
  • H. v H
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 23 January 2015
    ...drew the attention of the court to the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the jurisdiction of England and Wales in Imerman v. Imerman [2010] EWCA Civ. 908, in which the judgment of the Master of the Rolls (as he then was) held that the hitherto operational Hildebrand rules were never good l......
  • Nihal Mohammed Kamal Brake v Geoffrey William Guy
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 25 March 2021
    ...written, rather than a full trial, where it is usually oral. 166 I note also the comments of the Court of Appeal in Imerman v Tchenguiz [2011] Fam 116, [78]: “However, at least in the written submissions made on behalf of the defendants in the Queen's Bench Division appeal, it was contended......
  • Amit Matalia v Warwickshire County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 July 2017
    ...and formed part of the equitable right to protect confidential information, as it still does. Giving the judgment of the court in Imerman v Tchenguiz [2010] EWCA Civ 908; [2011] Fam 116, Lord Neuberger MR said at [67]: "However, given that the domestic law on confidentiality had already st......
  • MRA INTERNATIONAL SDN BHD vs SPC DIATECH, LLC
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 28 May 2021
    ...of 312 the Confidential Information (see Alfa Laval (M) Sdn Bhd v Ng Ah Hai & Ors [2008] 5 MLJ 344 and Imerman v Tchenguiz & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 908). Hazim’s evidence that information on diagnostic technologies is classified as confidential and the Plaintiff’s conduct in keeping the employ......
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6 firm's commentaries
  • High Court Rules That Public Interest Defence Is, In Principle, Available In Both Breach Of Confidence And Misuse Of Private Information Claims
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 14 June 2021
    ...point was that the same facts being proved will potentially serve as a defence in both kinds of claim. As stated in Imerman v Tchenguiz [2011 Fam 116, "the law should be developed and applied consistently and coherently in both privacy and 'old fashioned confidence' HHJ Matthews also reject......
  • Laptops For Work - Expectations Of Privacy
    • Hong Kong
    • Mondaq Hong Kong
    • 31 July 2011
    ...The judge cited with approval the following extract from a leading English Court of Appeal case on point (Imerman v Tchenguiz & Ors [2010] 2 FLR 814): "It seems to us, as a matter of principle, that, again in the absence of any defence on the particular facts, a Claimant who establishes......
  • Imerman - A Cheat's Charter?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 8 March 2011
    ...July 2010, the Court of Appeal gave it's decision in the conjoined appeals of Tchenguiz v Imerman; Imerman v Imerman [2010] EWCA Civ 908 which removed the right of one spouse to rely on the other spouse's confidential material in the context of divorce proceedings and in so doing, radically......
  • The Consequences of Lying
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 8 December 2010
    ...Court of Appeal decision in July in the case of Imerman (Tchenguiz v Imerman, Imerman v Imerman [2010] EWCA Civ 908) has been described as a 'cheat's charter'. In that case, Mrs Imerman's brothers had downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from Mr Imerman's computer which they then h......
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14 books & journal articles
  • Trade Secrets' Under New Zealand Law
    • New Zealand
    • Canterbury Law Review No. 22-2016, January 2016
    • 1 January 2016
    ...and Mud in Property Law” (1988) 40 Stanford Law Rev 577. 221 At 604. 222 Aplin above n 217, at 263, referring to Tchenguiz v Imerman [2010] EWCA Civ 908, [2011] 2 WLR 592. 266 Canterbury Law Review [Vol 22, 2016] that normally deal with the kind of information in question” 223 (and thus, no......
  • REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...18th century. For a historical survey of English case law that traces the evolution of the law of confidence, see Imerman v Tchenguiz [2010] EWCA Civ 908; [2011] 2 WLR 592 at [54] ff as well as I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting [2020] 1 SLR 1130 at [46] ff. 12 I-Admin (Singap......
  • A COMMON LAW TORT OF PRIVACY?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...in English Law”(2014) 73 Camb LJ 350 at 357. 119 Commentators, for example, Moreham, have seized on comments in Tchenguiz v Imerman[2010] EWCA Civ 908; [2011] 2 WLR 592 at [68] (in the context of a traditional breach of confidence claim) and R (ex parte Wood) v Metropolitan Police Commissio......
  • THE COURT'S DISCRETION TO EXCLUDE EVIDENCE IN CIVIL CASES AND EMERGING IMPLICATIONS IN THE CRIMINAL SPHERE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...the court could exclude evidence in the interests of justice (an observation which was cited by the Court of Appeal in Imerman v Tchenguiz[2011] Fam 116; [2010] EWCA Civ 908 at [171]). 59 Although note what is stated later in this paragraph concerning s 32(3) of the Evidence Act (Cap 97, 19......
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