Cases

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Wilson v Ferguson

Equity - Breach of confidence - Online publication – “revenge pornography”

Remedies - Injunction - Equitable compensation - Compensation for embarrassment, anxiety and distress

Costs - Indemnity costs

[2015] WASC 15 - Supreme Court of Western Australia

Judge Mitchell J

Weller v Associated Newspapers Limited

Misuse of private information- Data protection- Human rights- Photographs- Reasonable expectation of privacy- Children- Freedom of expression

[2014] EWHC 1163 (QB) - High Court (QBD)

Judge Dingemans J

WXY v Gewanter

WXY- Gewanter- Positive Profile- Burby- injunction- privacy- harassment- confidentiality- terms of draft order- whether information has entered the public domain- identity of claimant- fade factor- disclosure of persons to whom documents published- disclosure of funders of litigation

[2012] EWHC 1601 (QB) - QBD

Judge Slade J

White v Withers LLP & Ors (CA)

Interference with goods - Ancillary relief - Interception of spouses' personal documents - Hildebrand documents - Provision of documents to solicitors - Solicitors' liability

[2009] EWCA Civ 1122 - Court of Appeal

Judge Ward, Sedley and Wilson LJJ

Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (CA)

Privacy - Judicial review - Photographs - Public place - Police photographing individual associating with convicted criminal - Articles 8, 10, 11, 14, European Convention on Human Rights

[2009] EWCA Civ 414; [2009] HRLR 25; [2010] EMLR 1; Times, June 1, 2009 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Judge Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Laws and Dyson LJJ

WER v REW

Privacy - Injunctions - Evidence about allegedly private information - Truth or falsity - Public domain - Notification of media - Spycatcher principle

Unreported, 26 January 2009 - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Sir Charles Gray

White v Withers LLP & Dearle

Privacy - Breach of confidence - Wrongful interference with property - Misuse of private information - Matrimonial proceedings - Personal documents - Hildebrand documents - Solicitors' liability

[2008] EWHC 2821 - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Eady J

Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis

Privacy - Judicial review - Photographs - Public place - Police photographing individual associating with convicted criminal - Articles 8, 10, 11, 14, European Convention on Human Rights

[2008] EWHC 1105 (Admin) - Administrative Court

Judge McCombe J

Wainwright v United Kingdom

Human Rights - Prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment - Article 3 - Respect for private and family life - Article 8 - Effective domestic remedy - Article 13 - Prison visit - Strip search

Application No. 12350/04 - European Court of Human Rights

Judge Casadevall (President), Bratza, Pellonpaa, Maruste, Traja, Mijovic, Sikuta (Judges) and Early (Section Registrar)

Wainwright v Home Office

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

[2003] UKHL 53; [2004] 2 AC 406; [2003] 3 WLR 1137; [2003] 3 All ER 943 - House of Lords

Judge Lords Bingham, Hoffmann, Hope, Hutton & Scott

WB v H Bauer Publishing Ltd

Breach of confidence – invasion of privacy – striking out

[2002] EMLR 145 - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Eady J

WH Smith v Colman

Trade Marks - Infringement - Passing off - Registration of Internet Domain Name - Admissibility of without prejudice correspondence

[2001] FSR 9 - Court of Appeal

Judge Chadwick & Robert Walker LJJ