Cases

W v JH & A County Council Limited

Comment

Courts have rarely had to consider how the passage of time may affect the duty to publish. The judgment is interesting for its analysis of how the ECHR, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 as to the relevance of historic bad character evidence interact with the law on qualified privilege.

Areas of work

Data Protection
Defamation
Media Law

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