The Law of Privacy & the Media Launch
On 25 February 5RB and OUP welcomed colleagues, clients and guests to the Royal Courts of Justice to celebrate the launch of the 3rd edition of Tugendhat & Christie, The Law of Privacy… Read More »
Intrusion into Physical Privacy
To celebrate the publication of the 3rd Edition of The Law of Privacy and the Media, edited by Sir Mark Warby and Dr Nicole Moreham we will be publishing a series of abridged extracts from… Read More »
Harassment by Publication
To celebrate the publication of the 3rd Edition of The Law of Privacy and the Media, edited by Sir Mark Warby and Dr Nicole Moreham we will be publishing a series of abridged extracts from… Read More »
New edition of The Law of Privacy and the Media published
To celebrate the publication of the 3rd Edition of The Law of Privacy and the Media, edited by Sir Mark Warby and Dr Nicole Moreham we will be publishing a series of abridged extracts from… Read More »
Mirror phone-hacking damages appeal dismissed
The Court of Appeal today dismissed Mirror Group Newspapers’ appeal in relation to the sums in damages awarded by Mr Justice Mann to eight representative claimants who had been the victims of phone-hacking. Lady Justice… Read More »
Court of Appeal hearing in ANL v Weller
On 27 and 28 October 2015 the Court of Appeal heard an appeal by Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the MailOnline website, against the judgment of Mr Justice Dingemans dated 16 April 2014, in… Read More »
Permission to appeal in MGN phone hacking case
On 7 August 2015 Kitchin LJ granted MGN permission to appeal the judgment of Mann J in Gulati v MGN, on four grounds relating to the assessment of damages. The hearing of the appeal has… Read More »
Sportsman granted interim injunction
A “prominent and successful sportsman” has been granted an interim privacy injunction against the Sun on Sunday. Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing DBE granted the injunction at a telephone hearing on Saturday 1 August. The Sun… Read More »
Supreme Court to hear Vidal-Hall
The Supreme Court has granted Google permission to appeal in part in Vidal-Hall v Google. Permission to appeal was given in relation to the issue of whether compensation under section 13(2) Data Protection Act 1998 can be… Read More »
Max Clifford privacy strike out application refused
The application by the publicist Max Clifford to strike out the claim for misuse of private information brought against him by Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s butler, has failed. The claim came to light as a… Read More »
Judgment in MGN phone-hacking case
Mr Justice Mann handed down his judgment in the case of Gulati v MGN Ltd this morning, following a 4-week trial to assess damages in March 2015. The claims in misuse of private information related to… Read More »
‘Revenge porn’ offence commencement
A series of measures in the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 will come into force on 13 April 2015. Of particular interest to media lawyers will be: – The coming into force of the… Read More »
Privacy injunction statistics published
The Ministry of Justice has released its quarterly civil justice statistics report, which amongst other matters records the number of privacy injunctions applied for, awarded or continued over the period. The bulletin records that one… Read More »
Supreme Court: police retention of data lawful
The Supreme Court has allowed the appeals of two individuals who claimed that the police retention of electronic data about them on a searchable database breached their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on… Read More »
5RB Talks 2015: Bristol
5RB‘s series of 2015 talks kicked off on 12 February in Bristol. 5RB‘s Jacob Dean, Felicity McMahon and Julian Santos spoke about the Defamation Act 2013 and developments since it came into force, how to… Read More »
Couderc v France referred to Grand Chamber
The European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber Panel has decided to refer the case of Couderc and Hachette Filipacchi Associés v France to the Grand Chamber. The Government of France requested the referral, after… Read More »
Privacy Cases Double Over Four Years
According to figures released by Thomson Reuters, the number of reported cases per year in which a privacy argument was used has doubled since 2009-10. The new statistics show that there were 56 reported cases… Read More »
AVB granted privacy injunction
Following a contested trial, judgment has been given by Tugendhat J in AVB v TDD. AVB is a retired male solicitor and TDD a female prostitute. The dispute arose from the disclosure of AVB’s private… Read More »
Senior Property Executive Settles Privacy Claim
Matthew Pullen, a senior real estate commercial executive, has settled his claim for breach of privacy against the PR firm, FTI Consulting LLP and Anthony Danaher, the Chairman of Strategic Communications of that firm. Mr… Read More »
Paul Weller succeeds in High Court privacy claim
On 16 April 2014 the High Court ruled that the publication of photographs of three of Paul Weller’s children on the MailOnline website amounted to a misuse of their private information. Represented by 5RB’s David… Read More »