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Shopping and fishing: where claims of confidentiality meet demands for disclosure
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Where a public interest defence is raised, for example by a newspaper, to rebut an assertion by a claimant alleging breach of confidence, and the defence is not purely speculative, the claimant has to give disclosure in relation to the defence, subject to the search for documents not being disproportionate.