Court of Appeal
Published June 2, 2009
Napier and Another v Pressdram Ltd
Before Lord Justice Hughes, Lord Justice Toulson and Lord Justice Sullivan
Judgment May 19, 2005
A barrister who made a complaint against his solicitor to his professional body owed no duty of confidentiality to the solicitor or his firm not to reveal to others the result of the adjudication against the solicitor where the subject matter underlying the adjudication was nothing private to the solicitor.
The Court of Appeal so held, dismissing an appeal by the claimants, Mr Michael Napier, a partner in Irwin Mitchell, a firm and the second plaintiff, against the refusal of Mr Justice Eady ([2009] EWHC 39 (QB)) to grant an injunction against the defendant publisher, Pressdram Ltd,