There is a reasonably well known English court rule that a party to whom a document has been disclosed in proceedings may use the document only for the purpose of those proceedings and not in any other proceedings. An exception to that rule is where the document has been read to or by the court, […]
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Good Faith Obligation
Is there a duty of good faith in English law contracts? Mr Justice Leggatt started it. In a 2013 case (Yam Seng Pte Ltd v ITC [2013] EWHC 111) he examined in detail and perhaps for the first time in the English courts “the subject of whether English law does or should recognise a general […]
Veteran Local MP Apologises
Michael Reed, litigation partner, acted recently for the leader of the Conservative Group on Northumberland County Council in pursuing Ronnie Campbell, veteran MP for Blyth Valley, concerning defamatory statements made by Mr Campbell which went on to be reported in the local press. Mr Campbell was represented initially by North East firm Browell Smith & […]