Vanessa Bryant is to receive nearly $29million (£24million) following the circulation of graphic photographs of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and daughter. ...
Actor and Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson’s misuse of private information claim, and privacy actions by other claimants, against MGN Ltd over alleged “unlawful information gathering” (‘UIG’) will be allowed to proceed to trial, the High Court has ruled....
The Information Commissioner’s Office has closed its criminal investigation into the disclosure of CCTV footage that led to the resignation of Matt Hancock MP as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care....
Channel 5 has apologised and will pay “substantial damages” to an 88-year-old optometrist after settling a privacy claim brought over an episode of the TV show ‘Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!’...
The High Court has granted an interim injunction preventing the BBC from revealing the identity of an alleged MI5 agent which it says is a “dangerous extremist and misogynist who physically and psychologically abused two female partners” and who told one of them he worked for MI5,“in order to terrorise and control her”....
The BBC has been ordered by Belfast Crown Court to hand over both broadcast and un-broadcast material from a documentary series, Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History, first transmitted in 2019. The order follows an agreement between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the BBC....
The Supreme Court has upheld the findings of Mr Justice Nicklin and the Court of Appeal, that, as a legitimate starting point, prior to charge, an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in information relating to a criminal investigation into their activities....
The Supreme Court has upheld the findings of Mr Justice Nicklin and the Court of Appeal, that, as a legitimate starting point, prior to charge, an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in information relating to a criminal investigation into their activities....
Following a failed attempt to obtain an injunction to stop use of interview footage of them being used in Tiger King 2, that is beyond the first season of Tiger King, Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin and her husband Howard Baskin have decided to drop their lawsuit against Netflix and Royal Goode Productions LLC....
The appeal by the publisher of The Mail on Sunday against the decision to grant summary judgment in favour of the Duchess of Sussex in her claim for breach of privacy and breach of copyright was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 2 December 2021. ...
The Court of Appeal this week heard the Mail on Sunday’s appeal in a case relating to a letter the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, had written to her father. ...
The European Court of Human Rights has awarded damages to a woman who brought a claim over the distressing impact on her of newspaper coverage of her dead son, a decision which may have far-reaching consequences for the media. ...
The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has won a summary judgment in her widely reported privacy claim against the publishers of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline....
Last week a two-day hearing between the Duchess of Sussex and the Mail on Sunday’s owner, Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), was held to decide whether the judge could deliver a ‘summary judgment’ now without the need for a full-scale trial later in the year....
Associated Newspapers, publishers of MailOnline, have been ordered to pay £83,000 in damages to a man arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences but never charged....