Three weeks after their crushing legal defeat at the hands of the Duchess of Sussex last month, the owners of the Mail on Sunday returned to court in characteristically belligerent form – and had another bad day. Continue reading
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Three weeks after their crushing legal defeat at the hands of the Duchess of Sussex last month, the owners of the Mail on Sunday returned to court in characteristically belligerent form – and had another bad day. Continue reading
“Publishers and their legal teams will fear that yesterday’s victory for the Duchess of Sussex is a leap towards a judge made privacy law” ran The Times article the day after Mr Justice Warby granted Summary Judgment in Meghan’s case against the Mail on Sunday (HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspaper Limited [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch)). Continue reading
The big British newspapers, and especially the papers of the Mail group, want control. They want to make people behave in ways of which they approve and they will stop at nothing to ensure they do. Continue reading
The Duchess of Sussex has won her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday after a judge said there were “compelling reasons” for it not to go to trial over its publication of extracts of a private letter to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. Judgment in the case of HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) was handed down today. Continue reading
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will learn within weeks whether she will have a quick victory in her privacy and copyright case against the Mail on Sunday newspaper or whether it will go to full trial in London in the autumn. Continue reading
As it approaches an important round in its case against the Duchess of Sussex, the legal department of of Associated Newspapers, owner of the Daily Mail, has been going through a bumpy spell. Take a look. Continue reading
Seven years ago I started to take an annual look at what the coming year might hold for internet law in the UK. This exercise has always, perforce, included EU law. With Brexit now fully upon us future developments in EU law will no longer form part of UK law. Continue reading
Inforrm covered a wide range of data protection and privacy cases in 2020. Following the widely read posts in 2018 and 2019 here is my selection of most notable privacy and data protection cases from 2020: Continue reading
On 17 December 2020, the UK Supreme Court (Lords Reed, Sales and Burrows) granted the defendant in the case of ZXC v Bloomberg LP permission to appeal the order of the Court of Appeal dated 15 May 2020 ([2020] 3 WLR 838). Continue reading
Solicitor Ryan Beckwith emerged victorious from the Divisional Court today having had the limited findings against him made by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (“SDT”) last year reversed. Continue reading
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