Cases

Service Corporation International plc & Anor v Channel Four Television & Anor

Comment

The case offers several lessons, including these. Claimants need to be clear and consistent about the basis on which they will seek an injunction, and they need to move promptly. Copyright and trespass claims will not avail in cases of undercover filming by bogus employees. Claims in confidence may sometimes be possible. But it will be necessary to consider whether the claim should embrace all the information or only visual forms of it and, if the latter, whether the two can sensibly be distinguished. This time, the court saw no real distinction. More recent decisions such as Douglas v Hello! have seen the matter differently, at least where personal information is concerned. Mark Warby was was led by Charles Gray QC for the Claimant.

Areas of work

Copyright
Defamation
Entertainment Law
General Common Law
Injunctive Relief
Intellectual Property
Media Law
Privacy and Confidence

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