Cases

Active filters: Area of work: Privacy and Confidence [clear]
Year: 2011 [clear]

Cooper v Turrell

Libel - breach of confidence - misuse of private information - assessment of damages - injunctions

[2011] EWHC 3269 (QB) - High Court, QBD

Judge Tugendhat J

STU v UVW

Misuse of private information - interim injunction - anonymity - open justice

[2011] EWHC 3133 (QB) - High Court (Queen's Bench Division)

Judge Tugendhat J

CTB v News Group Newspapers

CPR 53 PD 6.3 - statements in open court - privacy - misuse of private information - part 36

[2011] EWHC 3099 (QB) - QBD

Judge Eady J

Ferdinand v MGN Ltd

Misuse of private information - Breach of confidence - Balancing Exercise - Article 8 Right to Privacy - Article 10 Right to Freedom of Expression - Public interest - False or misleading image - Debate of General Interest - Footballers - Kiss and Tell

[2011] EWHC 2454 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Nicol J

Hutcheson v News Group Newspapers Ltd

Privacy - Injunction - Public interest -  s 12(3) Human Rights Act

[2011] EWCA Civ 808; [2012] EMLR 2; [2012] UKHRR 1329 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Judge Lord Neuberger MR, Etherton & Gross LJJ

CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd

Privacy - Misuse of private information - Article 8, European Convention on Human Rights - Interim injunction - Blackmail - Anonymity - Public domain

[2011] EWHC 1232 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Eady J

Morgan v A Local Authority (Re X, Y and Z)

Family Proceedings – Publicity – Identification of experts – Disclosure of expert reports to media

[2011] EWHC 1157 (Fam) - High Court (Family Division)

Judge President of the Family Division

Mosley v UK

Article 8, ECHR - Right to respect for private life - Victim status - Domestic remedies - Positive obligations - Availability of injunctive relief - Margin of appreciation - No violation

Application no. 48009/08; [2012] EMLR 1 - European Court of Human Rights

Judge Garlicki, Bratza, Mijovic, Bjorgvinsson, Hirvela, Bianku, Vucinic

OPQ v BJM

Privacy - Human Rights - Injunctive relief - Injunctions - Spycatcher - Contra mundum - third parties - media

[2011] EWHC 1059 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Eady J

H and L v A City Council (CA)

Human rights - Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life - Judicial review - Disclosure of conviction by local authority - Procedural safeguards - Local authority powers

[2011] EWCA Civ 403 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Judge Pill, Hooper and Munby LJJ

Ambrosiadou v Coward (CA)

Privacy – interim injunction – document created for foreign matrimonial proceedings supplied by Defendant to media in this jurisdiction – whether judge should have granted injunction despite assurance given by Counsel on Defendant’s behalf – relevance of ‘Spycatcher’ doctrine

[2011] EWCA Civ 409 - Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Judge Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury MR, Leveson and Pitchford LJJ

Goldsmith & Anor v BCD; Khan v BCD

Privacy - Injunction – Anonymity order – 'Super-injunction' – Article 8 ECHR - Failure to serve proceedings on defendant – Breach of undertaking - Final order

[2011] EWHC 674 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Mr Justice Tugendhat

RJA v AJR

  Privacy - Breach of Confidence - Misuse of Private Information - Derogations from Open Justice -  Whether the hearing should take place in private - whether anonymity should be continued

- Queen's Bench Division

Judge Sharp J

A (A Child) v Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Open justice - reporting - clinical negligence - child - settlement - approval - Children and Young Persons Act 1933 - section 39 - criteria for order prohibiting identification - order made under section 39 - question is whether sufficient general public interest in a report which identified the claimant to justify any resulting curtailmment of his and  his family's right to respect for private life - no such general interest - risk object of proceedings would be defeated

[2011] EWHC 454 (QB); [2011] EMLR 18 - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Tugendhat J

Re Baby RB (Press Injunction)

Family proceedings - Reporting restrictions - Article 8 - Article 10

[2011] EWHC 221 (Fam) - High Court (Family Division)

Judge Macfarlane J

Hirschfeld v McGrath

Misuse of private information - Confidentiality - Marital confidences - Injunction - Consent order - Undertakings - Anonymity - Reporting proceedings

[2011] EWHC 249 (QB) - Queen's Bench Division

Judge Tugendhat J

JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd (CA)

Injunction - Anonymity order - Privacy - Misuse of private information - Open justice - Article 8 ECHR - Article 10 ECHR - Reporting restrictions

[2011] EWCA Civ 42 - Court of Appeal

Judge Master of the Rolls, Kay & Smith LJJ

MGN Ltd v UK

Human Rights - Breach of Confidence - Invasion of Privacy - Misuse of Private Information - Article 8 - Article 10 -European Convention on Human Rights - whether the award of damages for breach of confidence due to the publication of details concerning Ms Naomi Campbell's treatment for drug addiction, together with the impugned photographs, constituted a disproportionate interference with MGN's right to freedom expression under article 10 Human Rights- - Breach of Confidence - Invasion of Privacy - Misuse of Private Information - - Article 8 - Article 10 -European Convention on Human Rights - Costs - Conditional Fee Agreement - Success Fees - whether the award of costs, including success fees, constituted a disproportionate interference with MGN's right to freedom of expression under article 10

Application No 39401/04 - European Court of Human Rights

Judge Mijovic, Bratza, Bjorgvinsson, Hirvela, Bianku, Vucinic, de Gaetano