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Wakefield v Channel Four Television & Others (No.3)
Held
Ordering inspection, the documents having been disclosed by the Claimant under CPR 31.6, it was undesirable that the Defendants should be denied access to those documents. The confidentiality of documents was not an absolute bar to inspection; it was a matter that had to be considered in the balancing process. Similarly, even where documents had been obtained by compulsion, there was no absolute bar on further disclosure. The issue was whether the wider interests of justice required that the documents should be inspected by the Defendants. The fact that assurances had been given to some third parties who provided documents that they would be used only for the purposes of the proceedings albeit unintentionally misleading was a matter the Court would consider but again it was not determinative.