Phrases with «implied undertaking»

The phrase "implied undertaking" refers to an unspoken agreement or obligation to keep certain information private or confidential during a legal proceeding. It means that unless specified otherwise, parties involved in a legal case are expected to keep sensitive information confidential and not disclose it to others. Full definition

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Although the decision centers around the interpretation of the deemed undertaking rule of confidentiality found at Rule 30.1 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure, it likely has implications outside of Ontario given that this rule represents a codification of the common law's implied undertaking rule regarding the confidentiality of compelled oral and documentary discovery evidence, and that different jurisdictions have adopted similar rules to Ontario's Rule 30.1. (advocatedaily.com)
In order to strike a balance between fulsome disclosure and privacy rights, the Courts have developed a law known as the «implied undertaking of confidentiality» which prohibits a party who receives this forced disclosure from making use of the documents / information outside of the lawsuit without consent of the other parties or a court order. (bc-injury-law.com)
[35] The common law implied undertaking limits the use that the recipient of compelled disclosure can make of information obtained by that disclosure: Kitchenham v. AXA Insurance Canada, 2008 ONCA 877 (CanLII) at para. 29. (slaw.ca)
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