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....
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....
The French National Assembly has passed a Bill which includes a section which may make it harder for the media to report on the activities of the police....
Manchester United footballer Aaron Wan-Bissaka has won a privacy injunction against ex-girlfriend Rhianna Bentley, after she broke the news of his current partner’s pregnancy on social media....
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been given permission to serve a privacy claim brought on behalf of their son Archie on the US arm of Splash News and Picture Agency....
Hotel chain Marriott is facing a class action lawsuit after a data breach in which the personal details of 300 million customers worldwide were stolen. It is believed around seven million of those were based in the UK....
The Belgian Data Protection Authority has imposed its largest ever fine on the Belgian arm of tech giant Google for failing to respect a Belgian executive’s right to be forgotten....
In the latest round of her claim against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday,Associated Newspapers, Meghan Markle has obtained orders protecting the identity of five friends who were anonymous sources for a favourable article about her in People magazine....
The High Court has ordered former glamour model Katie Price to pay £25,000 in damages to her ex-husband, former cage fighter Alex Reid, for unlawfully disseminating information about his sex life....
A former Australian reality TV show contestant has won a compensation claim brought against the network responsible for the show, for psychological injury suffered during filming....
England cricketer Ben Stokes and his mother Deborah have issued a claim against the publisher of The Sun for the invasion of their privacy in relation to a front-page story which dredged up details of an historic family tragedy....
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has initiated legal proceedings against The Mail on Sunday over its publication of a letter she wrote to her estranged father....
The BBC has settled Sir Cliff Richard’s legal costs bill in his privacy claim against the corporation for around £2m....
Heather Mills, campaigner and former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, has settled her phone hacking claim against News Group Newspapers, publishers of the Sun and the now-defunct News of the World. Ms Mills received a ‘substantial’ sum....
Three French Michael Jackson fan clubs are suing the two men who accused Jackson of sexually abusing them in the documentary, Leaving Neverland. The fan clubs – The Michael Jackson Community, the MJ Street and On the Line...
The Australian media world has been rocked by Police action against both national broadcaster the ABC and a journalist at Sydney’s The Sunday Telegraph newspaper....
The US state of California is set to introduce privacy legislation in the form of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) which may have a similarly wide-ranging impact to the GDPR....
The High Court has granted an injunction preventing Bloomberg from reporting allegations that a businessman has been the subject of an investigation by a UK law enforcement body....
The Court of Appeal judgment in the Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! case, leaves the position unchanged. As we previously reported Mr Ali and his wife Mrs Aslam...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined True Vision Productions (TVP) £120,000 for filming patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital’s maternity assessment unit without their explicit consent....
Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky have settled a privacy claim they brought on behalf of their children against Associated Newspapers....
A case brought against comedian Louise Beamont by her estranged husband over material contained in her Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show ‘Hard Mode’ has settled....
Supermarket Morrisons faces paying a substantial sum in damages after the Court of Appeal confirmed it was liable for a data breach deliberately carried out by an employee....
The BBC will have to pay the lion’s share of £210,000 in damages to veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard for having breached his privacy in reporting a search of his home which was part of an investigation into an historic allegation of sexual assault....
Two German men, convicted of murder in 1993, who attempted to have their convictions removed from media archives, have had their case rejected by the European Court of Human Rights....
The Sun has paid substantial damages and made a public apology to the family of a deceased grandmother over the publication of stolen topless pictures of her printed following the rejection of her lottery win claim in 2016....
A Californian appeal court has overturned a ruling that would have allowed a claim by Olivia de Havilland against channel FX and Ryan Murphy Productions...
A group of celebrities, made of up of actress Jennifer Ellison, model Danielle Lloyd and footballers Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole, have received damages and apologies from MGN Ltd, the publisher of The Daily Mirror, over phone hacking. ...
The trial of Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy claim against the BBC over its coverage of a South Yorkshire Police raid on his flat in 2014, which began at the High Court on 12 April, has continued with evidence from Sir Cliff himself, and the BBC journalists and editors who were involved in publishing the story. zoom-in brief has already flagged up the potentially far reaching consequences of the case for media coverage of Police investigations and for the law of privacy...
The trial of Sir Cliff Richard’s claim against the BBC over its coverage of a South Yorkshire Police raid on his flat began at the High Court in London on Thursday, 12 April....
The Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! privacy case is heading to the Court of Appeal on the issue of damages....
Ofcom has upheld two separate complaints for breach of privacy against a Channel 5 documentary series on gang culture in the UK, called Inside The Gang....
Channel 5 will pay £20,000 in damages in connection with an episode of Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! after the High Court found it was a misuse of the private information....
A High Court Judge has this week heard the trial of a claim for misuse of private information by two individuals who were featured in an episode of the Channel 5 documentary series Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!...
A further round of phone hacking litigation against the publisher of The Sun and the News of the World has settled just as a six-week trial was about to begin at the High Court....
Two unnamed men are suing Google in the first ‘right to be forgotten’ case to reach the English courts....
Former France and Spurs footballer David Ginola has expressed surprise that the media were allowed to attend a hearing held in the family court. Mr Ginola was in court in a dispute...
The High Court in London has overturned an injunction which prevented UK media from reporting the London arrest of billionaire US tech investor Shervin Pishevar on suspicion of rape....
Ofcom has upheld a complaint of infringement of privacy made by Miss F on behalf of herself and members of her family which related to an episode of Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away...
Actor and comedian Steve Coogan, actor Sienna Miller and television presenter Jamie Theakston have all settled their phone hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers...
Following a trial in France, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have each been awarded 50,000 Euros as a result of French magazine Closer printing topless pictures of Kate Middleton...
The Government has announced a ‘statement of intent’ for a data protection bill. The proposals for the most part incorporate into UK law the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). ...
The Supreme Court has recently given judgment in a case in which an Oxford businessman attempted to obtain an order for anonymity after he was referred to in a child sexual grooming trial. The court ruled against Mr Tariq Khuja, who can now be named....
101-year-old Hollywood legend and Oscar-winning actress Olivia de Havilland is suing FX over the television show “Feud: Bette and Joan”....
Madonna has obtained an order from a Manhattan court, stopping the auction of a number of personal items....
Ofcom has not upheld a complaint by a senior UKIP official that his privacy was infringed when Channel 4 broadcast footage which identified the road...
A privacy case relating to the Channel 5 Programme Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! will proceed to trial after the channel failed in a bid to obtain summary judgment. ...
Ofcom has upheld a privacy complaint by a bride who appeared in the background of TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress....
Actor Liz Hurley has received substantial damages and an apology from MGN Ltd, the publishers of the Daily Mirror, over the hacking of her mobile phone. ...
Beauty and the Beast star Emma Watson is taking legal action after private photographs of her were stolen and said to have been posted online....
In this week’s zoom-in brief, film star Emma Watson instructs lawyers over stolen photographs...
In the main Summer issue of zoom-in magazine, we reported that newly installed Prime Minister, Theresa May, appeared to have dropped plans...
The BBC has defended the claim brought against it for invasion of privacy and breach of data protection obligations....
The Supreme Court has upheld an injunction granted to a married celebrity to prevent a Sunday tabloid reporting that he had a threesome with another couple, even though his identity has been reported in the US, Scotland and on social media....
A complaint by Prince Harry that the Daily Star breached Clause 1 (Accuracy), Clause 2 (Opportunity to reply) and Clause 3 (Privacy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “Harry and Pippa in ‘secret romance’” has been partially upheld for inaccuracy....
Cliff Richard has been told by police that no action will be taken against him in relation to allegations of historic sexual abuse....