Cumbria Waste Management Limited, Lakeland Waste Management Limited and Baines Wilson (a Firm) - High Court - Her Honour Judge Frances Kirkham sitting as a High Court Judge - [2008] EWHC 786 (QB)
Date: 16/04/2008
Privilege, Confidentiality and Mediator Privilege - Defendant solicitors to a negligence action in relation to contract drafting work were refused disclosure of mediation papers in circumstances where the other party to the mediation, DEFRA, objected. DEFRA were not a party to the litigation but appeared at the hearing. Acknowledgement that Mediators may have privilege in their own papers. See Mediation Update May 2008 download below.