Imerman v Tchenguiz and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Sir David Keene |
| Judgment Date | 29 July 2010 |
| Neutral Citation | [2010] EWCA Civ 126,[2010] EWCA Civ 908 |
| Docket Number | Case No: A2/2009/2133 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| Date | 29 July 2010 |
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104 cases
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H. v H
...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......
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Nihal Mohammed Kamal Brake v Geoffrey William Guy
...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......
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Amit Matalia v Warwickshire County Council
...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......
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MRA INTERNATIONAL SDN BHD vs SPC DIATECH, LLC
...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
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High Court Rules That Public Interest Defence Is, In Principle, Available In Both Breach Of Confidence And Misuse Of Private Information Claims
...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......
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Laptops For Work - Expectations Of Privacy
...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......
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Imerman - A Cheat's Charter?
...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......
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The Consequences of Lying
...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
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Trade Secrets' Under New Zealand Law
...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......
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REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
...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......
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A COMMON LAW TORT OF PRIVACY?
...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......
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THE COURT'S DISCRETION TO EXCLUDE EVIDENCE IN CIVIL CASES AND EMERGING IMPLICATIONS IN THE CRIMINAL SPHERE
...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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