The court considered a request for an order that a solicitor should reveal his client’s address.
Held: James LJ said: ‘If, indeed, the gentleman’s residence had been concealed; if he was in hiding for some reason or other, and the solicitor had said, ‘I only know my client’s residence because he has communicated it to me confidentially, as his solicitor, for the purpose of being advised by me, and he has not communicated it to the rest of the world’, then the client’s residence would have been a matter of professional confidence; but the mere statement by the solicitor, that he knows the residence only in consequence of his professional employment, is not sufficient.’
Judges:
James LJ
Citations:
(1869-70) LR 5 Ch App 703
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – SRJ v Person(s) Unknown (Author and Commenters of Internet Blogs) QBD 10-Jul-2014
The claimant sought an order for the disclosure by his solicitor of the identity of the author of an internet blog publishing critical material which, the claimant said, was its confidential information. The defendant’s solicitor had failed to . .
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Legal Professions
Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.534163
