The exception to the obligation not to disclose confidential information is limited to the proposed or contemplated commission of a crime or a civil wrong.
Judges:
Bankes LJ
Citations:
[1919] 1 KB 520
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – Weld-Blundell v Stephens HL 1920
A physical cause may be irrelevant as a matter of law. The law is concerned not with causation, but with responsibility. Lord Sumner said: ‘more than half of human kind are tale-bearers by nature’.
Where a legal wrong was committed without loss . .
Cited – Hyde Park Residence Ltd v Yelland, News Group Newspapers Ltd, News International Ltd, Murrell CA 10-Feb-2000
The court considered a dispute about ownership and confidence in and copyright of of video tapes taken by Princess Diana before her death.
Held: The courts have an inherent discretion to refuse to enforce of copyright. When assessing whether . .
Appeal from – Weld-Blundell v Stephens HL 1920
The plaintiff had been successfully sued for a libel contained in a document which he had supplied to his accountant.
Held: He could not recover the damages he had had to pay to the defamed party from his accountant, who had negligently left . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Defamation, Intellectual Property
Updated: 30 April 2022; Ref: scu.223823