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10 Jun Tomlinson Mirror privacy claim to proceed

Posted at 09:40h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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29 Apr ICO CLOSES INVESTIGATION INTO MATT HANCOCK CCTV

Posted at 18:43h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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14 Apr CHANNEL 5 TO PAY “SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES” OVER ‘CAN’T PAY? WE’LL TAKE IT AWAY!’ EPISODE

Posted at 17:17h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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!’...

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14 Apr INJUNCTIONS –COURT GRANTS INJUNCTION IN BBC ‘SPY’ CASE

Posted at 17:14h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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”....

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14 Apr COURT ORDERS BBC TO HAND OVER MATERIAL UNDER THE TERRORISM ACT

Posted at 17:13h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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22 Feb SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY IN PRE-CHARGE INVESTIGATIONS

Posted at 17:41h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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18 Feb SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY IN PRE-CHARGE INVESTIGATIONS

Posted at 15:37h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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23 Dec CAROLE BASKIN DROPS ACTION AGAINST TIGER KING 2 PRODUCERS

Posted at 14:14h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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03 Dec NEWSPAPER’S APPEAL DISMISSED IN DUCHESS OF SUSSEX PRIVACY CLAIM

Posted at 18:12h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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. ...

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12 Nov Appeal over Meghan’s letter to her father

Posted at 16:56h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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. ...

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29 Oct ECHR upholds privacy claim based on defaming the dead

Posted at 14:08h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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. ...

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12 Feb PRIVACY – MEGHAN GRANTED SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN PRIVACY CLAIM

Posted at 17:52h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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29 Jan DUCHESS OF SUSSEX SEEKS SUMMARY JUDGMENT AGAINST THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

Posted at 17:03h in Copyright & IP Rights, Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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15 Jan PRIVACY – MAILONLINE ORDERED TO PAY £83,000 AFTER IDENTIFYING TERROR SUSPECT

Posted at 20:00h in Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

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....

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15 Jan TV INDIE HAS ICO FINE REDUCED FROM £120K TO £20K OVER HOSPITAL FILMING FOR CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY CHILD OF MINE

Posted at 18:36h in Data Protection, Posts, Privacy & Data Protection

The First Tier Tribunal has reduced – from £120,000 to £20,000 – the fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on True Vision Productions (TVP) after it filmed patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital without their explicit consent....

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