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4.11.15
Misuse of Private Information: ICO fines CPS £200,000 following theft of sex attack victims' interview videos
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to take adequate data protection steps to ensure that video interviews of sex attack victims were stored securely. Interviews of 43 victims and witnesses were stored on two laptops that were stolen in a burglary in September 2014. The videos were in the process…
Read more4.08.15
A new era for privacy law: substantial damages likely to be commonplace
In Gulati & Ors and MGN Limited [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch) Mr Justice Mann set out guidelines for assessing damages in privacy cases. As well as providing a helpful framework for determining damages, the judgment recognised that the level of damages awarded in earlier privacy cases have often been inadequate. The facts The claimants were…
Read more17.02.15
'Revenge porn' criminalised in England and Wales
‘Revenge porn’, the term coined for the unauthorised sharing of private sexual photographs or videos, often carried out by spurned lovers over the medium of the Internet, has been criminalised in England and Wales under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (‘the Act’) which received Royal Assent on 12 February 2015. When the provisions…
Read more16.02.15
Alan Sugar Twitter hunt for prank caller – Iain Wilson interviewed by the Mirror
Brett Wilson LLP Partner Iain Wilson has been interviewed by the Mirror which has run a story on Lord Sugar using Twitter to track down a prank caller. A copy of the article can be found here.
Read more27.01.15
High Court dismisses application by Google to strike out Mosley claim
In Mosley v Google [2015] EWHC 59 (QB) Google sought to strike out a claim brought by former Formula One President Max Mosley. Mosley is seeking damages and an injunction, under Section 10 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘DPA 1998’). The injunction is sought to block access to still images and edited footage from its…
Read more23.01.15
Mirror Group Newspapers settle phone-hacking claims in High Court
The High Court on 22 January 2015 heard that a number of celebrities (including Cilla Black, Darren Day, Peter Andre and Jessie Wallace) had settled their claims against the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for phone hacking that was alleged to have taken place between 2000 and 2006. The claims for misuse of private information related…
Read more31.10.14
Court of Appeal blocks publication of autobiography and resurrects the tort of deliberate infliction of harm
The Court of Appeal in OPO (a child by BHM his litigation friend) v MLA [2014] EWCA Civ 1277 has overturned a decision of the High Court and granted an injunction to restrain the publication of a semi-autobiographical book by a well-known performer. A book by written MLA (anonymised for the purpose of these proceedings)…
Read more26.09.14
Court of Appeal rules that there should be no privacy injunction where Appellant arrested on suspicion of sex offences
The Court of Appeal in PNM and Times Newspapers Limited & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1132 has upheld the decision of the High Court not to grant a non-disclosure order in a case where the Appellant was arrested but not charged with serious sexual offences against children. The Court was considering an appeal against the…
Read more2.09.14
Jennifer Lawrence and the leak of naked pictures: legal solutions
Actress Jennifer Lawrence is one of apparently 100 celebrities who have had intimate photographs of them leaked on to the internet. She is not the first celebrity to appear naked on the internet. The World Wide Web contains millions of images of celebrities in various states of undress. These have been captured (invariably in flagrant…
Read more21.05.14
Judge refuses to rule that damage to reputation cannot be subject of a privacy claim
In Hannon and another v News Group Newspapers and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2014/1580.html), News Group Newspapers (‘NGN’) sought to strike out two privacy Claims, primarily on the basis that they should have been brought in defamation. The Claimants had issued proceedings after apparently discovering, during the course of Operation Elveden, that corrupt…
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