Gartside v Outram, 1856 26 LJ Ch 113
Citation:Gartside v Outram, 1856 26 LJ Ch 113
Rule of thumb:If you confess fraud/law-breaking to another person, is this privileged? No, where there is an actual admission of law breaking guilt this is not confidential/privileged.
Judgment:
‘You cannot make the confidant of a crime or a fraud, and be entitled to close up my lips... such a confidence cannot exist’, Wood VC at 114
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