Coco v Clark, 1969, RPC 41

Citation: Coco v Clark, 1969, RPC 41

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Rule of thumb: When does confidentiality arise? When there are reasonable grounds to believe that there was an expectation of privacy.

Judgment:

Any time someone is told information is given privately, then a duty of privacy and confidence applies to this information, unless the person providing the information expressly waives it, ‘If the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence, then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence’, Megarry J at 48

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