On 15 April 2019, the UK Supreme Court granted permission to appeal in the data protection group action case of Various Claimants v W M Morrison Supermarkets. The Court of Appeal ([2018] EWCA Civ 2339) had upheld the Judge’s ruling that Morrisons was vicariously liable for its employee’s data breach. Read the rest of this entry »
News: Supreme Court grants permission to appeal in the Morrisons mass data breach case
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Tags: Group Litigation, Morrisons, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Data Protection, Legal
Supreme Court considers social media defamation: context is everything – Iain Wilson
11 04 2019
Some practitioners were surprised that Stocker v Stocker [2019] UKSC 17 reached the country’s highest court. The appeal concerned the meaning (or imputation) of words in a libel action. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Iain Wilson, Meaning, Stocker v Stocker, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Libel
Case Preview: Stocker v Stocker, a Supreme Court appeal considering meaning – Oliver Cox
24 01 2019Today, 24 January 2019, five Supreme Court judges (Lord Reed, Lord Kerr, Lady Black, Lord Briggs and Lord Kitchin) will hear Stocker v Stocker UKSC 2018/0045, an appeal against the 12 February 2018 Court of Appeal decision of Lady Justice Sharp, with whom Lord Justice McFarlane and Sir John Laws concurred ([2018] EWCA Civ 170). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Case Preview, Defamatory Meaning, Oliver Cox, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Libel
Defendants should not be gleeful at prospect of Supreme Court allowing appeal on defamation test in Lachaux case – Greg Callus
15 04 2018
There is a sneaking suspicion among some media lawyers that our cases seem to get permission to appeal to the higher courts more regularly than one might expect. Maybe it’s the fast-changing nature of media and communications law in the digital era; maybe it’s the sparkle and pizzazz of celebrities and gossip which brightens the day of overworked appellate judges. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Greg Callus, Lachaux, Serious Harm, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Libel
News: Supreme Court to give judgment on Article 10 CFA challenge on 11 April 2017
6 04 2017The Supreme Court has announced that judgment will be handed down in the cases of Times Newspapers v Flood, Frost v MGN and Miller v Associated Newspapers at 9.45 am on Tuesday 11 April 2017. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: CFAs, Costs, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Freedom of expression, Legal
Case Comment and Preview: PJS v NGN, The last rites of the privacy injunction? In the Supreme Court on Thursday – Sara Mansoori and Aidan Wills
20 04 2016
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: PJS, privacy injunction, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Injunction, Legal, Media, Privacy
News: Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal in Mirror phone hacking damages case
23 03 2016
The Supreme Court has refused Mirror Group permission to appeal against the phone hacking damages awards made by Mr Justice Mann in May 2015. This decision has far reaching implications for phone hacking cases and privacy law more generally. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Damages, Gulati, Mirror Group, Mr Justice Mann, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Phone Hacking, Privacy
News: UK Supreme Court grants permission to appeal in part in Vidal-Hall v Google, misuse of private information is definitively a tort
28 07 2015
The UK Supreme Court has today granted Google partial permission to appeal in the Vidal-Hall case. The permission covers the data protection issues but not the issue as to whether misuse of private information is a tort. On this last issue the decision of the Court of Appeal ([2015] EWCA Civ 311) stands. Misuse of private information is now clearly established as a tort and the claims can proceed against Google regardless of the result of the data protection appeal. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Google, UK Supreme Court, Vidal-Hall
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Privacy
Case Law: R (Evans) v HM Attorney-General, The Tale of the Black Spider, the Supreme Court Speaks – Matthew Flinn
29 03 2015
And so, the long legal saga of the Black Spider Letters finally comes to a close. I last blogged about this case back in October 2012. At that time, the Attorney General had ignited controversy by invoking a little-known power under section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Guardian, Letters, Prince Charles, UK Supreme Court
Categories : Freedom of Information, Government and Policy
