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
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In a judgment handed down today the UK Supreme Court, by a majority of 4:1, allowed the claimant’s appeal in the case of PJS v News Group Newspapers ([2016] UKSC 26). Continue reading
Earlier this week the Court of Appeal allowed NGN’s application to set aside an interim injunction preventing the reporting of details of a well-known celebrity’s sex life (PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 393). On Thursday, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to grant PJS permission to appeal and, if so, whether the appeal should be allowed. Continue reading
Fleet Street reporters and lawyers recoiled this week at the unpleasant smell of the privacy injunction, released from years in mothballs. At the same time claimants and their lawyers were inhaling the sweet smell of springtime success in the guise of PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd. Continue reading
The first privacy injunction case heard by the Court of Appeal since 2011 has recently been published. In PJS v News Group Newspapers ([2016] EWCA Civ 100), the court allowed an expedite appeal against the refusal to grant an interim injunction restraining The Sun on Sunday from publishing an article about a well-known entertainer’s extramarital sexual activities. Continue reading
The grant of a privacy injunction in the case of AMC v News Group Newspapers ([2015] EWHC 2361 (QB)) has unleashed a deluge of largely inaccurate media comment worthy of the “super injunction spring” of 2011. Yet much of what is reported in the press does not appear in the judgment, which was in fact decided on established principles after careful balancing of the rights of the respective parties. Continue reading
On 24 April 2015 Mr Justice Warby granted a two claimants a privacy injunction against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publishers of the Daily Mail. The injunction restrained the threatened publication of information concerning a personal private and confidential relationship between the claimants. Continue reading
On Saturday 29 November 2014, Mr Justice Stewart granted a privacy injunction against the “Sun on Sunday” to restrain the publication of information about a sexual relationship. This was the first privacy injunction against the media since January 2013. Continue reading
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