Bourns Inc v Raychem Corporation, Clifford Chance, Row and Maw, Latham and Watkins: PatC 17 Oct 1998

Where a party sought disclosure of documents in support an application in a costs taxation, the payee could choose not to disclose, but if he did so the payer was bound by implied undertakings to use them only for the purposes of that application and no other.

Citations:

Times 26-Nov-1998, [1999] FSR 641, [1999] 3 All ER 154

Cited by:

CitedInstance and Others v Denny Bros Printing Ltd and Others ChD 3-Feb-2000
The dispute arose between parties to without prejudice communications or who had obtained documents from such persons and were commercially connected with them.
Held: An implied agreement would bind them as parties or by reason of the source . .
Appeal fromBourns Inc v Raychem Corporation CA 17-Dec-1998
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Costs, Intellectual Property, Evidence

Updated: 08 May 2022; Ref: scu.135877