In Sledziewski & Anor v Persons Unknown & Anor [2024] EWHC 1955 (KB), Aidan Eardley KC, sitting as a deputy High Court Judge, handed down an excoriating judgment refusing an application for an interim injunction in harassment. Continue reading
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In the case of Green v United Kingdom [2025] ECHR 91 the Fourth Section of the Court of Human Rights held that a failure by Parliament to prevent Lord Hain from revealing information about Sir Philip Green (“the Applicant”) which was subject to a privacy injunction was not a violation of Article 8. Continue reading
In the case of JRV & ARC v BRG [2023] EWHC 2238 (KB) Mr Justice Ritchie granted an interim privacy injunction preventing the publication of information about an extra-marital affair. Continue reading
On 12 October 2023, Mr Justice Jay handed down judgement in Cooper v Evans & Anor [2023] EWHC 2555 (KB) in favour of the defendants. The Judge refused the claimant’s (Mr Andrew Cooper) application for an injunction under the Representation of the People Act 1983 (“the RoPA”), which sought to prevent the republication of a political advert published on West Midlands Labour social media pages regarding the claimant, who was at the time a Conservative candidate for the Tamworth by-election (held on 19 October 2023). Continue reading
On 29 June 2023, Collins Rice J granted an injunction in the case of WFZ v BBC [2023] EWHC 1618 (KB) restraining publication by the BBC of a report in a form which identified the claimant as the subject of active criminal proceedings. The application for an injunction was heard on 14 and 19 June 2023. Continue reading
The latest Ministry of Justice privacy injunction statistics show that in 2022 there were 12 applications for interim privacy injunctions. This is a similar level to 2020 and 2021 (10 applications in each of those years). Continue reading
On 11 May 2022 Lane J dismissed an application for an interim injunction against Reel News, a London based activist video collective using film to help bring about social change, and journalist Shaun Dey, requiring them to take down a video in which a former employee, Claire Laycock, made serious allegations of sexual harassment at the Transport and Salaried Staffs Association (“TSSA”)
The latest Ministry of Justice privacy injunction statistics show that the low rate of applications has continued in 2021. In the first six months of the year there were 3 privacy injunction applications (compared to 10 in 2020). Continue reading
On 21 April 2020, Nicol J granted summary judgment in a matter involving the online publication of covert recordings of intimate footage featuring both parties to the proceedings (BVG v LAR [2020] EWHC 931 (QB)). Continue reading
In 2017 a new list was created in the Queen’s Bench Division, to be known as the Media and Communications List, and Mr Justice Warby, a media law specialist, was put in charge of it. Continue reading
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