High Court - Queen's Bench Division, London Regional Transport v Mayor of London, 31 July 2001, 2001 WL 825638
Abstract:
The public transport service of the London subway is managed, in a public-private partnership, by a mixed company. In the case under examination, the company was asking the Major of London – associate of the affiliated company- a huge compensation for having published a report on the management of the service, violating a confidentiality clause present in the partnership contract. The English High Court has rejected the injunction, on the basis of public relevance of the information disclosed to the community, establishing in this way an important precedent in relation to the impossibility to consider the litigations between public associate and private associate of an affiliated company in a purely privatistic perspective.