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Solicitors may not use privileged documents

Language: English Series: Chartered Surveyor Weekly ; vol 32 no 12 27/9/90 p109-110(2)Publication details: 1990Subject(s): Summary: In Derby & Co Ltd v Weldon and others (No 8), CA 27 July 1990, it was held that where, in the course of discovery, privileged documents were inadvertently disclosed to, and were inspected by, a party`s solicitors in circumstances where the solicitors must have realised that a mistake had occurred but had sought to take advantage of it, all copies of the documents in the solicitors` possession were to be returned and an injunction granted restraining use of information contained in or derived from them.
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In Derby & Co Ltd v Weldon and others (No 8), CA 27 July 1990, it was held that where, in the course of discovery, privileged documents were inadvertently disclosed to, and were inspected by, a party`s solicitors in circumstances where the solicitors must have realised that a mistake had occurred but had sought to take advantage of it, all copies of the documents in the solicitors` possession were to be returned and an injunction granted restraining use of information contained in or derived from them.