Orr v Diaper

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1876
Year1876
CourtChancery Division
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  • Blythe v The Commissioner of an Garda Slochána
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 23 d1 Outubro d1 2023
    ...being sought in the “ special circumstances” of the case (at 182B-D). 56 Viscount Dilhorne thought that the decision in Orr v Diaper (1876) 4 Ch D 92 (also reported at 25 WR 23 and 46 LJ Ch 41) established that discovery could be granted against a person “ who is not a mere witness to disco......
  • Ashworth Hospital Authority v MGN Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 d1 Dezembro d1 2000
    ...were exhaustively analysed by other members of the Committee, involved a wide variety of causes of action. They included passing off : Orr v Diaper 4 Ch D 92; liability of stockholders for debts : Post v Toledo, Cincinnati and St Louis Railroad Co (1887) 11 N.E. Rep. 540; interference with ......
  • R Omar Awadh Omar Habib Sulieman Njoroge and Another v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 26 d2 Junho d2 2012
    ...may in such circumstances be obtained, though I think the court, perhaps misled by the fact that they had available only the report at 4 Ch.D. 92, may have been wrong in saying that in Orr v Diaper the plaintiffs neither alleged that they had a cause of action nor intended to sue the defend......
  • British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 30 d3 Julho d3 1980
    ...1 W.L.R. 639). 25This case had itself followed other decisions of which the most important, subsequent to the Judicature Act 1873, was Orr v. Diaper (1876) 4 Ch.D. 92. In that, and in earlier cases, the plaintiff seeking discovery had a cause of action against the immediate defendant, and w......
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