By: James

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:55:20 +0000

The idea that a wife is not going to tell her husband—or that a husband is not going to tell his wife—the outcome of a probate dispute like this one is absurd. The Court should not require one spouse to keep secrets from another; and nor should it be much concerned with what passes between husband and wife. HHJ Paul Matthews’ little judgment on the embargo breach is a masterpiece of pomposity and time wasting.

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By: Andrew

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:07:41 +0000

We all do it, but it is difficult to know or control who may be reading an email or attachments sent in plain text. In this case it sounds like simple automatic forwarding, but it could have been an email exploder sending copies to a mailing list with hundreds or thousands of recipients.

It could have helped to have password protected the embargoed judgment. The covering email – or preferably a message sent separately, perhaps by phone or a text message – could then have included the information about the court’s instructions on confidentiality, along with a password to open the draft.

No system is infallible, but at least the client should then have known, and the risk of inadvertent leaks would be much lower.

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