Two certified questions of public importance: (1) whether an implied undertaking was created by the disclosure of documents pursuant to the prosecution's duty at common law; and (2) whether there was immunity from suit in respect of statements made by informants, investigators and prosecutors before actual or possible criminal litigation.

HL (Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Hutton)

29/10/1998