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L v L and H (a firm)
Comment
The case demonstrates that the Court will readily protect privileged and personal information in circumstances where it is thought to have been obtained without lawful authority or consent, and legal measures safeguarding the disclosure process have not been exhausted. The Court stressed that the wife could have made an application for a range of orders to obtain or preserve the material in dispute, and showed no sympathy for behaviour which circumvented the safeguards protecting confidentiality in the CPR. The judgment re-enforces the importance to be attached to the individual's rights to privacy in his personal information, not only in traditional but also electronic forms.