Contentious Commentary - June 2014
10 June 2014
The latest edition of "Contentious Commentary", a newsletter that provides a summary of recent developments in litigation. The newsletter is produced by lawyers in the litigation and dispute resolution practice at Clifford Chance.
This edition covers the following key issues:
- When benefits accruing from breach can be disregarded
- Contradiction can be necessary to prevent estoppel
- Liability for passing on someone else's information
- Parent company not liable to subsidiary's employees
- Tracing need not be in strict chronological order
- Wholly-owned company not subject to freezing injunction against its shareholder
- Damages under the undertaking in damages are contract based
- Collateral use of disclosed documents requires cogent reasons
- Applications before expiry of time are not Mitchelled
- Wikileaks admissible in evidence