On 16 June 2026 Baroness Stowell introduced the Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill (“the Bill”) into the House of Lords. An identical bill has been introduced in the House of Commons by Sir John Whittingdale MP. 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
The Norwich Pharmacal Order (“NPO”) has, for the last five decades, been a valuable tool in the hands of a potential claimant who seeks identify anonymous wrongdoers. A third party who holds identifying information can, if they have been “mixed up” in the wrongdoing, be ordered to disclose identifying documents or information. Continue reading
In his judgment in Davidoff v Google LLC ([2023] EWHC 1958 (KB)) Nicklin J has comprehensively restated the principles to be applied on Norwich Pharmacal applications, emphasising the importance of balancing the Convention rights of the applicant and those of the alleged wrongdoer. Continue reading
On 4 July 2023, in the case of Hurbain v Belgium (App No 57292) the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld (by 12 votes to 5) the decision of the Third Section that an order to anonymise an article in a newspaper’s electronic archive (which referred to a person’s involvement in a fatal road traffic accident for which they were subsequently convicted) did not breach the applicant publisher’s right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Continue reading
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