Norwich Pharmacal Company v Commissioners of Customs and Excise

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Reid,Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest,Viscount Dilhorne,Lord Cross of Chelsea,Lord Kilbrandon
Judgment Date26 June 1973
Judgment citation (vLex)[1973] UKHL J0626-1
Date26 June 1973
CourtHouse of Lords
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48 firm's commentaries
  • International Fraud & Asset Tracing (3rd Edition), England & Wales
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 5 March 2015
    ...England & Wales 138 EUROPEAN LAWYER REFERENCE SERIES The jurisdiction derives from Norwich Pharmacal v Commissioners of Customs & Excise [1974] AC 133. The claimant was the proprietor of patents for a chemical compound. The defendants (HMCE) had published statistics showing the importation ......
  • The Dispute Resolution Review - Cayman Islands
    • Cayman Islands
    • Mondaq Cayman Islands
    • 6 March 2014
    ...Intl Holdings Ltd [2003] CILR 457. 14 Named after the English decision Norwich Pharmacal Co v. Commissioners of Customs & Excise [1974] A.C. 133 and applied in numerous Cayman Islands cases (e.g., Deutsche Bank v. Codelco [1996] CILR 1). 15 Named after the English decision Bankers Trust......
  • Norwich Pharmacal relief – costs, rights and obligations in pre-action disclosure
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 10 June 2019
    ...otherwise to probe the evidence in support. Click here to download PDF. 1 After Norwich Pharmacal Co v Customs and Excise Commissioners [1974] AC 133. 2 [2001] EWCA Civ 1897. 3 [2018] UKSC 28. 4Bankers Trust Co v Shapira [1980] 1 WLR 1274. 5Z Ltd v A-Z and AA-LL [1982] QB 558, as now embodi......
  • The Long Arm Of The Law: How Social Media And P2P File-Sharing Are Not 'Untouchable'
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 29 October 2012
    ...Tamiz v Google Inc et al [2012] EWHC 449 (QB). June 2012, unreported. Norwich Pharmacal Co et al v Customs & Excise Commissioners [1974] AC 133. 7 March 2012, reference 20 June 2012, reference A12-183247. Law Society, Practice Note, Social Media, 20 December 2011. R (British Telecommuni......
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43 books & journal articles
  • PRE-COMMENCEMENT DISCOVERY AND THE ODEX LITIGATION: COPYRIGHT VERSUS CONFIDENTIALITY OR IS IT PRIVACY?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...Property Rights 1994 (“TRIPS”); WIPO Copyright Treaty 1996 (“WCT”) and WIPO Performances and Phonogram Treaty 1996 (“WPPT”). 29 [1974] AC 133, [1973] 3 WLR 164. 30 Ho Hock Lai, A Philosophy of Evidence Law, Justice in the Search for Truth (OUP, 2008). 31 Note s 121(1) of the Criminal Proced......
  • United Kingdom
    • United States
    • ABA Antitrust Library Obtaining Discovery Abroad. Third Edition
    • 8 December 2020
    ...not as extensive as the discovery available in U.S. courts. CPR 31.2. 46 . CPR 31.17; Norwich Pharmacal Co. v. Customs & Excise Comm’rs [1974] AC 133 (HL) (appeal taken from Eng.). 47 . For a summary of the differences between the two jurisdictions, see THE HAGUE CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE INTER......
  • ISSUES CONCERNING COMPLIANCE
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Money Laundering Control No. 4-2, April 2000
    • 1 April 2000
    ...Compagnie Financiers du Pacifique v Peruvian Guano Co. (1882) 11 QBD 55. (237) Norwich Pharmacal Co. v Customs and Excise Commissioners [1974] AC 133. See paragraph 44, above. (238) Bankers Trust Co. v Shapira [1980] 1 WLR 1274. (239) See also Appendix A (see original SALS report for append......
  • Disclosure of Foreign Intelligence Material: CPIA, Norwich Pharmacal and the War on Terror
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 15-4, October 2011
    • 1 October 2011
    ...should be noted that this isnot directly linked to the test of ‘relevance’contained in either CPIA or the associated Codes of Practice.41 [1974] AC 133, [1973] 3 WLR 164. See also Ashworth Security Hospital vMGN Ltd [2002]UKHL 29, [2002] 1WLR 2033.42 [1974] AC 133 at 175, per Lord been exte......
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1 provisions
  • The Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2006
    • United Kingdom
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 January 2006
    ...about infringing goods and services. By reason of the House of Lords decision in Norwich Pharmacal v Customs and Excise Commissioners [1974] AC 133 no provision is necessary to implement this obligation in England and Wales or Northern Regulation 5 implements Article 15 of the Enforcement D......

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