Real Estate Opportunities Ltd v Aberdeen Asset Managers Jersey Ltd

Subject Matter

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 — Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, ss 348, 391 — CPR r 31.19(3)

[2007] EWCA Civ 197; [2007] Bus LR 971; [2007] 2 All ER 791, CA

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