Although it is untrue, much of the British public now believes that despite losing its long and bitter court battle against Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, the Mail newspaper group has only been required to pay £1 in damages. Continue reading
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Category: Privacy (Page 1 of 91)
The owners of the Mail on Sunday have finally capitulated in the privacy and breach of copyright case brought by the Duchess of Sussex, abandoning any idea of a further appeal and agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum in settlement. Continue reading
Inforrm covered a wide range of data protection and privacy cases in 2021. Following my posts in 2018, 2019 and 2020 here is my selection of most notable privacy and data protection cases across 2021: Continue reading
On 8 and 9 December 2021 the settlement of a 15 phone hacking claims against News Group Newspapers were announced. A series of statements in open court were read before Fancourt J, culminating in a high profile and hard hitting unilateral statement in open court by Sienna Miller. Continue reading
The Daily Mail is at it again. In 2016, they famously labelled three Court of Appeal judges as “Enemies of the People” for ruling that an important decision had to be referred to Parliament. Continue reading
The reaction of the Daily Mail today to its court defeat at the hands of the Duchess of Sussex is both dishonest and cynical. In a leading article and also in an opinion piece promoted at the top of the front page it makes a case that it is the victim of injustice because judges have again seen fit to give victory to the Duchess without holding a trial. Continue reading
Giving judgment striking out the Claimant’s privacy claim in Pryor v Liverpool Womens’ NHS Foundation Trust & Lumsden ([2021] EWHC 2911 (QB) [pdf]), Senior Master Fontaine, has confirmed that the English law of privacy has not progressed yet to there being a stand-alone tort of privacy. Continue reading
In the case of Biancardi v. Italy ([2021] ECHR 972) the First Section of the European Court of Human Rights held that an order finding that the editor of an online newspaper liable for failing to de-index an article concerning criminal proceedings did not breach Article 10 of the Convention. Continue reading
When the Court of Appeal hands down its judgment in the case of the Duchess of Sussex versus the Mail on Sunday newspaper on Thursday morning (London time), one thing is certain: the Mail and its friends in the UK corporate press will misrepresent it. Continue reading
Next week, on 30 November and 1 December 2021, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in ZXC v Bloomberg LP. The case gives the court an opportunity to answer one of the most important questions which has emerged in English privacy law in recent years: does a person who has not been charged with an offence have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a police investigation into their activities? Continue reading
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