R v Brown (Gregory)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date08 February 1996
Date08 February 1996
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • R v Fellows ; R v Arnold
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 27 September 1996
    ...photograph, in another form. 39 We find support for this conclusion in the speech of Lord Goff in a recent House of Lords decision, Reg. V. Brown (Gregory) [1996] 1 AC 543. The issue was whether "data" within the Data Protection Act 1984 was limited to data in computer-readable form (see pa......
  • Durant v Financial Services Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 December 2003
    ...There is inevitably a tension between those two primary objectives at an inter-state level, as Lord Hoffmann observed in R v. Brown [1996] AC 543, HL, at 557A-C. That tension is not so evident in the domestic setting for which the Act provides, in particular, in the right of access to perso......
  • Palgo Holdings Pty Ltd v Gowans
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 25 May 2005
    ...[2001] 2 AC 532 at 548 [28] per Lord Steyn. 56Collector of Customs v Agfa-Gevaert Ltd (1996) 186 CLR 389 at 396–397 citing R v Brown [1996] AC 543 at 561. 57 cf Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW), s 34(1). 58Re Bolton; Ex parte Beane (1987) 162 CLR 514 at 518. 59Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW), s ......
  • Baker v R
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 1 October 2004
    ...Hughes (2000) 202 CLR 535 at 565–566 [66]. 179Collector of Customs v Agfa-Gevaert Ltd (1996) 186 CLR 389 at 396–397, approving R v Brown [1996] AC 543 at 561 per Lord Hoffmann. 180 See the limitations on judicial discretion in Gerlach v Clifton Bricks Pty Ltd (2002) 209 CLR 478 at 503–504 [......
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3 books & journal articles
  • ISSUES CONCERNING COMPLIANCE
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Money Laundering Control No. 4-2, April 2000
    • 1 April 2000
    ...Norwich Pharmacal ν Customs & Excise Commissioners [1974] AC 152. (150) Bankers Trust Co. ν Shapira [1980] 1 WLR 1274. (151) R ν Brown [1996] 1 All ER 545 (HL). (152) Section 5(6). (153) This was assumed by Rix J in Dubai Aluminium Co. ν Al Alawi [1999] 1 All ER 703. (154) Dir 95/46/EC. (15......
  • La surveillance du courrier electronique en milieu de travail: le Quebec succombera t-il a l'influence de l'approche americaine?
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 51 No. 3, September 2006
    • 22 September 2006
    ...common law et celle du droit civil en termes de la conception de l'humanite de l'employe. (64) Encore en 1996, dans l'arret R. v. Brown, [1996] A.C. 543 a la p. 557 (H.L.), le Lord Hoffman a fait le commentaire suivant : (65) Pour une discussion plus poussee des facteurs historiques, voir M......
  • The search for elusive electrons: getting a sense for electronic evidence
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 1-1, January 2001
    • 1 January 2000
    ...This arguably differs from what many had previously understood to be the position. 12Turner, March 2001 Computers and Law 36, 37. 13[1996] 1 All E.R. 545, cited in Hoey, “Techno-Cops: Information Technology and Law Enforcement”, (1998) 6(1) International Journal of Law and Information Techn......

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