Privacy
12.04.13
CFA success Fees and After the Event Insurance premiums cease to be recoverable
save in libel/privacy, insolvency and mesothelioma cases, Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) success fees and After The Event (ATE) insurance premiums have ceased to be recoverable from the losing party in civil litigation. The change will not affect CFAs and ATE insurance policies enetered into prior to 1 April 2013. CFAs allow solicitors and their clients to share the risk of the litigation. The solicitor only charges the…
Read more20.01.13
The sun, privacy and Rocknroll
Mr Justice Briggs has handed down a written judgment in Rocknroll v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2013] EWHC 24 (Ch) which serves as a helpful reminder of the issues the court will consider in deciding whether the publication of photographs should be prohibited on privacy grounds. In 2010 the Claimant Edward Rocknroll attended a private fancy…
Read more24.11.12
Employees' freedom of expression on Facebook
The recent case of Adrian smith -v- Trafford Housing Trust [2012] EWHC 3221(Ch) concerned the interesting issue of an employer disciplining an employee for remarks published on the website Facebook. The Claimant, Adrian smith, a practising Christian and lay preacher, worked as a housing manager at the Defendant Housing Trust. Mr smith posted two comments on his personal Facebook page, one of which described…
Read more27.05.12
Thousands of websites unprepared for new EU cookie law
Privacy regulations that cover the use of cookies and similar technology for storing and accessing information on a users computer or mobile came into force on 26 May 2011. Cookies are small files placed on a user’s computer when he/she visits a particular website. Typically they record user choices which are then referenced when the user returns to the website. Cookies…
Read more2.04.12
Judgment handed down in Tulisa Contostavlos sex tape privacy injunction
On Friday 29 March 2012 Mr Justice Tugendhat set out his reasons for continuing a non-disclosure injunction against (1) Michael Mendahun (2) anyone in possession of any film or video of the Claimant Tulisa Contostavlos engaged in a sexual act or part or stills therefrom and (3) the Claimant’s former boyfriend Justin Edwards. Unsurprisingly, there…
Read more31.03.12
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions reports no need for legislation
set up in the wake of the spate of highly publicised privacy injunctions last year, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions has published its final report. significantly, the report rejects criticisms that privacy law has beenjudge made, stating that it has evolved from the Human Rights Act 1998. The report concludes that a statute defining the right…
Read more4.03.12
End of the line for Ryan Giggs privacy claim
What was arguably the most high profile case of the last year came to a messy end in the High Court on Friday 2 March 2012 when Tugendhat J refused to reinstate Ryan Giggs claim for the misuse of confidential information. It had emerged that the claim had automatically been struck out on 18 November 2011…
Read more21.02.12
Ryan Giggs consents to the lifting of the anonymity part of privacy injunction.
The original injunction granted in April 2011 prevented the publication of details of an alleged extra-marital affair and the identification of the footballer. Ryan Giggs sought the injunction after the sun newspaper ran an article about an unnamed footballer having an affair with a model. The anonymity element of the injunction has now been lifted by agreement. The…
Read more19.02.12
Privacy injunction obtained by Ann summers' CEO
On 15 February 2012 Tugendhat J handed down a judgment setting out why he has granted an interim injunction preventing the publication of private and confidential information relating to Jacqueline Gold the CEO of Ann summers. The Defendants Allison Cox and Leanne Bingham both formerly worked with Ms Gold. The application for an injunction was…
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