Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS,LORD JUSTICE STEPHENSON,LORD JUSTICE WALLER |
| Judgment Date | 11 March 1977 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1977] EWCA Civ J0311-8 |
| Docket Number | 1969 H. No. 98 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| Date | 11 March 1977 |
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264 cases
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Rank Film Distributors Ltd v Video Information Centre
...which they are disclosed". ( Distillers Co. v. Times Newspapers [1975] Q.B. 613, 621 per Talbot J. 11In the most recent case— Riddick v. Thames Board Mills Ltd. [1977] 1 Q.B. 881, 896 the Master of the Rolls used the words "for any ulterior or alien purpose". But it has never been held tha......
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Rank Film Distributors Ltd v Video Information Centre
...that the old privilege against self-incrimination is out of date. He says that it is outmoded by the decision of this court in Riddick v. Thames Board Mills (1977) 1 Queen's Bench 881. It was there held that, where a party is compelled by law to give discovery in a civil action, the documen......
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Virgin Media Communications Ltd v British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc
...Glick referred us to a number of authorities in support of this proposition. The earliest, and the most relevant of these, was Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd [1977] 1 QB 881. That action was one of a series brought by a disgruntled ex-employee against the company that had employed him. He......
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Hong Lam Marine Pte Ltd and Another v Koh Chye Heng
...which they discovered in those proceedings. The learned judge held that it was. He applied the case of Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd [1977] QB 881 (which we shall discuss in a moment) with regard to the minutes disclosed in the affidavit of Lai, on the ground that Lim was very much invol......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Confidentiality In The Litigation Process: The Implied Undertaking, Confidentiality And Sealing Orders
...17; Chonn v. DCFS Canada Corp dba Mercedez-Benz Credit Canada, 2009 BCSC 1474 at para. 25. 5 Riddick v. Thames Board Mills Ltd., [1977] 3 All E.R. 677 at 687 (C.A.) 6 Blindman Livestock Feeder Co-Op Ltd. (Receiver of) v. Snyder, 2005 ABQB 689 at para. 4. 7 Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd. v. F......
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Arbitration Is Confidentiality A Reality?
...interests of justice. In deciding so the Court drew from the following statement by Lord Denning in Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd [1977] 3 All ER 677 (CA) at 687: "[t]he reason for compelling discovery of documents in this way lies in the public interest in discovering the truth so that ......
7 books & journal articles
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PRE-COMMENCEMENT DISCOVERY AND THE ODEX LITIGATION: COPYRIGHT VERSUS CONFIDENTIALITY OR IS IT PRIVACY?
...2006 (Butterworths). 84 [2003] FSR 17. 85 Applying Microsoft Corp v SM Summit Holdings Ltd[1999] 4 SLR 529, Riddick v Thames Board Mills[1977] QB 881 and Ransome Tempil Inc v Romar Positioning (Singapore High Court No 705 of 1990). The District Court felt that discovery information obtained......
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Defining the Limits of the Common-Law, South African and European Privilege against Self-Incrimination
...and Cooper [1989] Crim LR 590; R v Pitt [1983] QB 25; Canada: R v Sawats ky (1997) 150 DLR (4th) 7 5026 Riddick v Tha mes Board Mills [1977] QB 881 South Africa : Magmoed v Janse van Ren sburg 1993 1 SA 777 (A) following S v De Blom 1977 3 SA 513 (A) where it was held that ig norance of the......
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Civil Procedure
...Bodas Co LLC[2007] 2 SLR 518, the Court of Appeal reiterated (at [93]) the principle established in Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd[1977] QB 881, which is that a party seeking discovery of documents is under an implied undertaking that he will make use of them only for the purposes of that......
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Civil Procedure
...party along the line of the Riddick principle when disclosing sensitive documents in discovery (see Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd[1977] QB 881). In the unreported case of Mopi Pte Ltd v Central Mercantile Corporation (S) Ltd[2004] SGHC 41, the applicant sought leave to use documents disc......
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