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Information - From: 1993 To: 1993
This page lists 5 cases, and was prepared on 08 August 2015.
Ex parte Coventry Newspapers Ltd [1993] QB 278; [1993] 1 All ER 86; [1992] 3 WLR 916
1993
CA
Lord Taylor of Gosforth CJ
Defamation, Police, Information
Documents had been disclosed by the Police Complaints Authority under court order for an appeal against conviction. They related to an investigation of the conduct of police officers who had given evidence against the appellant. The newspaper, now being sued for libel by the same police officers, applied for the accused to be given leave to allow it to use the documents in its defence, on the basis that there was an implied undertaking which it was necessary to vary. Held: The court acceded to the newspaper's application. The interests of justice required the undertaking to be varied so as to allow the appellant in the criminal proceedings to hand over the documents to the newspaper upon its undertaking to use them only for the purposes of its defence. It was unnecessary to call those in whom the confidence inhered to consent to the disclosures.
Lord Taylor of Gosforth CJ said: "But for such proposed order the appellant would clearly be unable to hand over the documents: he would be subject to an implied undertaking, analogous to that arising on discovery in civil proceedings, not to use the disclosed documents otherwise than for the purposes for which discovery was given, here the pursuance of the criminal appeal, which is now, of course, successfully concluded." and
"We summarise our reasoning thus. Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as "the maintenance of an honourable, disciplined, law-abiding and uncorrupt police force," given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant's successful appeal, it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation - largely other police officers and court officials - will regret that co-operation, or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it, were this court now to release the documents to [the newspaper] to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages."
1 Citers
Data Protection Registrar -v- Griffin Ind Summary, 29 March 1993
29 Mar 1993
QBD
Information
An accountant must register under the Act if he keeps clients' data on a computer.
Data Protection Act 1984 5
Regina -v- Brown; CACD 28-May-1993 - Times, 04 June 1993
Innovations Mail Order Ltd -v- Data Protection Registrar [1993] UKIT DA92_31491
29 Sep 1993
IT
Information
[ Bailii ]
Innovations (Mail Order) Ltd -v- The Data Protection Registrar DA/92 31/49/1
29 Sep 1993
DPT
J.A.C. Spokes; Mrs Kathleen Foss and Mr A. B. Cowling
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[ IC ]
