Cases

Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd (Third Party Disclosure)

Held

Dismissing the Defendant's application against the Met:

(1) Mr Berezovsky had a sufficient interest in the Application against the Met to entitle him to make submissions. Important public policy considerations required that 3rd party disclosure orders were only made where the court was satisfied that it was appropriate to do so;

(2) Before the Court could order the disclosure of a wide class of documents the Defendant had to show that all documents in the class would satisfy the CPR 31.17 threshold. For many categories of documents the Defendant had failed to do so. Further, other classes of documents related to issues that were not in dispute in the proceedings or which had not been properly defined because of the absence of an Amended Reply;

(3) Some categories of documents were refused on the basis that the Defendant had failed to show that further disclosure was necessary given the previous order made against the IPCC.

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