KB-2025-001228 - [2025] EWHC 2506 (KB)
Fecha: 01-Oct-2025
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Approved judgment | FMTS and anor v Friend and anor |

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
MRS JUSTICE HILL
Between:
(1) FRIEND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS LIMITED (2) FRIEND MTS LIMITED | Claimants/ Respondents |
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(1) JONATHAN NORMAN FRIEND (2) FRIEND TP LIMITED - and – (1) ANDREW SKINNER (2) KEVEN PARKER (3) MICHAEL JOSEPH (4) NORTHEDGE CAPITAL LLP | Defendants/ Applicants NEC Respondents |
Daniel Oudkerk KC and Jamie Randall (instructed by Addleshaw Goddard) for the Claimants/Respondents
Gavin Mansfield KC (instructed by Lewis Silkin LLP) for the Defendants/Applicants
Matthieu Gregoire (instructed by Jowett Kennedy Fidler LLP t/a Tyr) for the NEC Respondents
Hearing date: 19 September 2025
Mrs Justice Hill:
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- Introduction
- The factual background
- The procedural history
- The issues on the applications
- (ii): Surveillance documents
- (iii): The NEC Custodians’ material
- The legal framework
- (ii): Documents in a party’s“control”
- (iii): Orders for non-party disclosure under CPR 31.17
- (i): Are the documents sought in the Claimants’ control?
- (ii): Are the documents sought of such relevance that disclosure of them is necessary for the fair disposal of the proceedings?
- (iii): Would the specific disclosure order sought be consistent with the overriding objective?
- The non-party disclosure application
- Conclusions