The Business Law Reports
[2007] Bus LR 971
Court of Appeal
Real Estate Opportunities Ltd v Aberdeen Asset Managers Jersey Ltd and others
[2007] EWCA Civ 197
2007 Feb 14,
15;
March 9
March 9
Tuckey, Arden and Lawrence Collins LJJ
Financial services
— Investigation
— Confidential information
— Financial Services Authority's investigation into activities of defendants
— Authority providing defendants with transcripts of evidence given by defendants' employees
— Authority issuing warning notices to defendants
— Defendants ordered as part of subsequent litigation to give inspection of transcripts of evidence and warning notices
— Whether defendants “obtaining” information contained in transcripts from authority
— Whether inspection of warning notices resulting in their prohibited “publication”
— Whether defendants entitled to withhold inspection
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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c 8), ss 348, 391
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CPR
r 31.19(3)