Cases

Paddick v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No.2)

December 10, 2003

Privacy - Breach of Confidence - Disclosure - Whether truth/falsity of the allegations were relevant

Re Roddy (A Minor); Torbay Borough Council v Associated Newspapers Ltd

December 2, 2003

Family law- Human Rights - Children - local authorities - care proceedings- privacy - rights of mature teenager - Article 8 - Article 10- freedom of expression - proper approach to varying injunction

Attorney General v MGN Ltd

November 20, 2003

Confidential information - breach of confidence - Human Rights - employment contract - whether a contractual duty of confidence should be given more weight than an implied duty- interim injunction

Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.6)

November 7, 2003

Breach of confidence - Privacy - Data Protection Act 1998 - intellectual property - Quantum of damages - Distress - Wasted costs - Loss of revenue - Notional licence fee

Wainwright v Home Office

October 16, 2003

Tort – Intentional infliction of harm – Visitors to prison strip-searched for drugs – Distress and humiliation inflicted – Privacy – Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights - Whether English common law recognises a cause of action for invasion or privacy- Remedies

Paddick v Associated Newspapers Ltd

September 10, 2003

Privacy - Breach of Confidence - Human Rights - Part 18 Further Information - Disclosure of amount paid to source by newspaper - Damages - Public Interest Defence

D v L

July 31, 2003

Privacy - Confidence - Injunction - Consent - European Convention on Human Rights - Article 10 - Freedom of Expression - Article 8 - Respect for private life - public domain

In re S (A Child) (CA)

July 10, 2003

Family law - Reporting restrictions - Inherent jurisdiction - Injunctions - Human rights - Privacy - Article 8 ECHR - Freedom of expression - Article 10 ECHR

Archer v Williams

July 3, 2003

Breach of Confidence - Contract - Employment - European Convention on Human Rights - Article 8 - Article 10 - Damages - Injury to feelings - liability for republication

Johnson v Home Office

June 26, 2003

Breach of Confidence - Damage to Reputation - Public Interest Defence - Negligence - Proximity - Foreseeability - Remoteness of Damage -Trial

Maris & Others v Walsh

June 11, 2003

Defamation - Libel - breach of confidence - threat to publish -interim injunction.

Lord Ashcroft v Attorney General & Others

June 5, 2003

Data Protection - Subject Access Request - s.7 Data Protection Act 1998 - Manual Files - Exemptions - Privacy - Breach of Confidence

Tolkien v Birmingham Sunday Mercury

May 24, 2003

Press Complaints Commission - Code of Conduct - Privacy - Intrusion into grief - Rights of the dead - Rights of the bereaved

X (formerly known as Mary Bell) & Y v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Ors

May 21, 2003

Anonymity Order - Lifetime Injunction to restrain identification - Breach of Confidence - Human Rights Act 1998 - Article 2 - Article 8 - Article 10 - whether the applicants' exceptional circumstances warranted the grant of lifetime protection contra mundum

Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.5)

April 11, 2003

Human Rights - intellectual property - Breach of confidence - Privacy - ECHR, Art 8 - Freedom of expression - ECHR, Art 10 - Data Protection Act 1998 - use of surrepitiously taken photographs

Covance Laboratories v J

March 27, 2003

Breach of confidence - public domain - corporate documents - whether internet publication defeated claim in confidence - injunctions

Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.4)

March 3, 2003

Breach of confidence - Privacy - ECHR, Art 8 - intellectual property - Civil procedure - Witness statements - Hearsay evidence - Cross-examination - CPR 33.4 - CPR 32.5

Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee & Another (CA)

February 13, 2003

Breach of confidence - Injunction - Freedom of expression - s.12(3) Human Rights Act 1998 - Real Prospect of Success

Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.2)

February 12, 2003

Breach of confidence - Privacy - ECHR, Art 10 - ECHR, Art 8 - Service out of jurisdiction - Data Protection Act 1998 - Interference with rights and business - Unlawful means conspiracy - photographs

Peck v United Kingdom

January 28, 2003

Human Rights - Privacy - Article 8 - respect for private life - interference - in accordance with the law - legitimate aim - necessary in a democratic society - Article 13 - right to an effective remedy- Article 41 - damages, costs and expenses

Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No.3)

January 27, 2003

Breach of confidence - Privacy - Human Rights - ECHR, Art 8 - Striking out - Re-amendments - Fair trial