Privacy
21.11.23
Is it safe to use AI for legal research? Not yet
The development and use of AI (artificial intelligence) has increased dramatically in the past year. Widely available AI apps can be used to ask complex questions and immediately receive ostensibly sophisticated answers. The use of AI has extended to the legal sector where chatbots can be used to search for cases relating to a particular…
Read more10.10.23
Court grants injunction to prevent details of affair being disclosed in blackmail case
In JRV & ARC v BRG [2023] EWHC 2238 (KB) Mr Justice Ritchie granted an interim privacy injunction preventing the publication of information about an extra-marital affair. The judgment, handed down on 8 September 2023, is a concise but comprehensive judgment traversing the core principles of privacy injunctions. Facts In January 2022 the anonymised First…
Read more19.09.23
Instagram privacy claim succeeds against unknown parties, but fails against named defendants
In this article we consider the decision of Mrs Justice Collins Rice in LCG and others v OVD and others [2023] EWHC 2058 (KB). The first and second claimants succeeded in establishing a claim for misuse of private information against persons unknown, but the judge was unable to attribute any of the alleged tortious conduct…
Read more6.09.23
I have been accused of a crime: will it be made public?
If you have been accused of a crime, whether this information will become public is likely to depend on whether you have been charged or not. Pre-charge: police investigation The recent case of Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5 makes it clear that generally there is an expectation that during the police investigation, someone…
Read more21.07.23
Court of Appeal overturns decision of High Court judge to refuse to accept undertakings in harassment claim
We previously published a press release on behalf of our client Dr Erica Smith following the outcome of her harassment and privacy claim against former colleague and UCL academic Dr Christopher Backhouse. The claim concerned a sustained campaign of online harassment, which included the creation of Twitter accounts impersonating Dr Smith and offering sexual services…
Read more14.07.23
Could The Sun be facing the “mother of all privacy claims”?
On 11 July 2023, on the News Agents podcast, broadcaster Jon Sopel asked whether The Sun could be facing “the mother of all libel claims” for publishing allegations against a then unnamed BBC presenter. On 13 July 2023, Vicky Flind confirmed that her husband Huw Edwards was the broadcaster in question. It might be too…
Read more4.05.23
The ICO needs to do more than pay lip service to data processing complaints against search engines and the press
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s ‘supervisory authority’, as required by the Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC) (superseded by the EU General Data Protection Regulation and later the UK General Data Protection Regulation) on all matters concerning personal data. Amongst its roles, the ICO is obliged to consider complaints from members of the…
Read more14.04.23
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Read more4.04.23
Georgia Harrison to sue Stephen Bear over revenge porn/image-based abuse that has already landed him in jail
Who are Stephen Bear and Georgia Harrison? If you are not a fan of reality television, then it’s unlikely you would have heard of either of Stephen Bear or Georgia Harrison until recently. Stephen Bear, 33, appeared on Shipwrecked in 2011 and Ex on the Beach in 2015. These accomplishments allowed Bear to qualify…
Read more14.03.23
Lexis Nexis analysis: High Court awards nearly £100,000 to image-based abuse victim (FGX v Stuart Gaunt)
Written by Iain Wilson, managing partner/head of Media and Communications Law at Brett Wilson LLP. This analysis was first published on Lexis®PSL on 7 March 2023 and can be found here (£). It is reproduced with permission and thanks. Summary In FGX v Gaunt [2023] EWHC 419 (KB), the claimant obtained £60,000 in general damages…
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