Unilever Plc v Procter and Gamble Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1999
Date1999
CourtChancery Division
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  • R v K
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • Invalid date
    ...CA. Sporrong v Sweden (1982) 5 EHRR 35, ECt HR. Unilever plc v Proctor & Gamble Co [2001] 1 All ER 783, [2000] 1 WLR 2436, CA; affg [1999] 2 All ER 691, [1999] 1 WLR Walker v Wilsher (1889) 23 QBD 335, CA. AppealThe husband, K, appealed against Judge Karsten QC’s ruling at a preparatory hea......
  • LS v PS
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • December 23, 2021
    ...law, there are established exceptions to this form of privilege. In Unilever plc v The Proctor & Gamble Co [1999] EWCA Civ 3027, [2000] 1 WLR 2436, Robert Walker LJ explained the basis of the rule in these terms:- “[35] … the without prejudice rule is founded partly in public policy and p......
  • Penny Ann Lavis v Nursing and Midwifery Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • December 5, 2014
    ...for a tribunal fully to articulate. Lord Hoffman described this in Piglowska v Piglowski [1999] UKHL 27, [1999] 3 All ER 632, [1999] 1 WLR 1630, quoting what he had earlier observed in Biogen Inc v Medeva plc [1997] RPC 1, thus: 'The need for appellate caution in reversing the trial judge......
  • AAG Investments Ltd v BAA Airports Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • November 9, 2010
    ...to an impropriety unless the privilege is itself abused. That, it seems to me, is what Robert Walker LJ meant in the Unilever case [2000] 1 WLR 2436 when he repeatedly spoke in terms of the abuse of a privileged occasion, or of the abuse of the protection of the rule of privilege: see at p......
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