Cases

Lord Ashcroft v Attorney-General & Department for International Development

Facts

In 1999 and 2000 articles were published in two newspapers that revealed confidential and sensitive personal information about Lord Ashcroft contained in documents leaked from the Foreign Office and from the Second Defendant. This was an application to re-amend the particulars of claim in his action for damages for breach of confidence and privacy in order to add breaches of the 1984 and 1998 DPA. He also sought to add the FCO press officer who authenticated the leaked documents to the press as a Defendant and applied for damages for the tort of misfeasance in public office and aggravated damages.

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