Lord Advocate v The Scotsman Publications Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Keith of Kinkel,Lord Templeman,Lord Griffiths,Lord Goff of Chieveley,Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle |
| Judgment Date | 06 July 1989 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1989] UKHL J0706-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Docket Number | No. 6. |
| Date | 06 July 1989 |
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16 cases
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Oliver and Son Ltd, Petitioners
...and first order for servicepronounced. Pattison v Fitzgerald (1823) 2 S 536 (NE 468) andLord Advocate v The Scotsman Publications LtdSC1989 SC (HL) 122distinguished. Oliver and Son Ltd presented a petition to the Court of Session seeking an order under sec 46 of the Court of Session Act 198......
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Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
... ... Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead ... Lord Goff of Chieveley ... Lord ... [1920] A.C. 508 , Burmah Oil Co. Ltd. v. Lord Advocate [1965] A.C. 75 and, in this context, Malone v. Metropolitan Police ... ...
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B C And Others Against Chief Constable Police Service Of Scotland And Others
...the law of confidence is generally considered to be the same in Scotland and England: see, Lord Advocate v Scotsman Publications Ltd 1989 SC (HL) 122 at pages 162 and 163. [11] Moreover, there are Scottish authorities which implicitly recognise this right. He directed my attention to Hender......
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2 books & journal articles
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Elspeth Christie Reid, PERSONALITY, CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY IN SCOTS LAW Edinburgh: W Green & Son (www.wgreen.co.uk), Scottish Universities Law Institute, 2010. li + 379 pp. ISBN 9780414016811. £120.
...in the traditional action for breach of confidence (particularly through the decision of the House of Lords in Lord Advocate v Scotsman 1989 SC (HL) 122 and the distinction between the finding of the European Court of Human Rights in Von Hannover v Germany (2005) 40 EHRR 1 and of Lord Bonom......
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Spies, Traitors and Good Faith
...by the Crown. (10) At p. 907d-f. (11) Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers (No. 2) 1 AC 109, Lord Advocate v Scotsman Publications Ltd [1990] 1 AC 812. (12) Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers (No. 2), ibid. at 284. (13) (1996) NLJ 727 at 728. (14) It is uncertain whether a plaintiff c......