12 Feb PRIVACY – MEGHAN GRANTED SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN PRIVACY CLAIM
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 PRIVACY AND COPYRIGHT – DUCHESS OF SUSSEX SEEKS SUMMARY JUDGMENT AGAINST THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
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....
15 Jan PRIVACY – MAILONLINE ORDERED TO PAY £83,000 AFTER IDENTIFYING TERROR SUSPECT
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....
15 Jan DATA PROTECTION – TV INDIE HAS ICO FINE REDUCED FROM £120K TO £20K OVER HOSPITAL FILMING FOR CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY CHILD OF MINE
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....
30 Nov PRIVACY (FRANCE) – FRENCH LEGISLATION MAY BAN POLICE IMAGES IN PUBLICATIONS AND BROADCASTS
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....
13 Nov PRIVACY – MANCHESTER UNITED FOOTBALLER WINS INJUNCTION FOLLOWING PREGNANCY DISCLOSURE
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....
11 Sep PRIVACY – DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX BRING CLAIM OVER PICS OF BABY ARCHIE
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....
28 Aug DATA PROTECTION – MARRIOTT FACE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AFTER DATA BREACH
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....
07 Aug DATA PROTECTION (BELGIUM): GOOGLE FINED €600,000 OVER RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
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....
07 Aug PRIVACY – MEGHAN’S FRIENDS TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS IN HER PRIVACY CASE, FOR NOW
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....
27 Mar PRIVACY – KATIE PRICE TO PAY £25,000 TO EX-HUSBAND ALEX REID FOR MISUSE OF HIS PRIVATE INFORMATION
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....
01 Nov (AUSTRALIA) PRIVACY – LANDMARK COMPENSATION AWARD TO REALITY SHOW CONTESTANT
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....
18 Oct PRIVACY – BEN STOKES AND MOTHER SUE THE SUN FOR BREACH OF PRIVACY
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....
04 Oct PRIVACY – MEGHAN MARKLE SUES THE MAIL ON SUNDAY OVER LETTER TO FATHER
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....
13 Sep PRIVACY – BBC AGREES TO PAY SIR CLIFF £2M IN LEGAL COSTS
The BBC has settled Sir Cliff Richard’s legal costs bill in his privacy claim against the corporation for around £2m....
26 Jul PRIVACY – HEATHER MILLS SETTLES PHONE HACKING CLAIM
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....
26 Jul (FRANCE) DEFAMATION: MICHAEL JACKSON FANS SUE SINGER’S ACCUSERS
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...
13 Jun AUSTRALIA – POLICE RAIDS ON MEDIA DENOUNCED AS INTIMIDATION
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....
10 May (US) DATA PROTECTION – CALIFORNIA MOVES TOWARDS PRIVACY LEGISLATION
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....
25 Apr PRIVACY – INJUNCTION GRANTED AGAINST BLOOMBERG OVER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION CLAIMS
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....
25 Apr PRIVACY – COURT OF APPEAL UPHOLDS JUDGMENT IN CAN’T PAY? WE’LL TAKE IT AWAY! CASE
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...
12 Apr DATA PROTECTION – TV INDIE FINED £120,000 BY REGULATOR ICO OVER HOSPITAL FILMING
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....
18 Jan PRIVACY: Chelsea Clinton settles privacy case over children’s pictures
Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky have settled a privacy claim they brought on behalf of their children against Associated Newspapers....
21 Dec Privacy – Comedian case settles
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....
26 Oct DATA PROTECTION – Morrisons liable for data breach by rogue employee
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....
20 Jul Privacy – Sir Cliff Richard wins £210,000 damages from the BBC
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....
06 Jul Privacy – Convicted killers lose ‘right to be forgotten’ case
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....
22 Jun Privacy – Damages and apology for revenge porn pics of dead woman
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....
29 May (US) Privacy and Right of Publicity– Court sides with FX in de Havilland claim
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...
11 May PRIVACY – celebrities receive Mirror hacking payout
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. ...
27 Apr PRIVACY – Sir Cliff trial continues as Court hears from BBC journalists and editors
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...
13 Apr PRIVACY – Sir Cliff trial begins in London
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....
13 Apr Damages appeal in Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! case
The Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! privacy case is heading to the Court of Appeal on the issue of damages....
29 Mar OFCOM – C5’s Inside The Gang in privacy breach
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....
23 Feb PRIVACY: CAN’T PAY TO PAY UP – PROGRAMME HELD TO BREACH PRIVACY RIGHTS
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....
09 Feb Privacy – High Court hears claim against Channel 5 over Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!
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!...
26 Jan PRIVACY – Phone hacking – trial over allegations of hacking at The Sun settles at the last minute
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....
26 Jan PRIVACY – ‘Right to be forgotten’ reaches English court
Two unnamed men are suing Google in the first ‘right to be forgotten’ case to reach the English courts....
17 Nov REPORTING RESTRICTIONS/PRIVACY – David Ginola ‘surprised’ press can attend his family court hearing
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...
17 Nov PRIVACY – Injunctions: Court lifts rape arrest reporting ban
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....
03 Nov OFCOM – PRIVACY – Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away – privacy complaints upheld
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...
13 Oct PRIVACY – PHONE HACKING: Steve Coogan, Sienna Miller and Jamie Theakston get phone hacking damages
Actor and comedian Steve Coogan, actor Sienna Miller and television presenter Jamie Theakston have all settled their phone hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers...
15 Sep Duke and Duchess win pay-out over topless pictures
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...
11 Aug Government outlines new data protection law
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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”). ...
01 Aug (UK) Privacy, Reporting Restrictions – Supreme Court allows identification of man named in criminal trial
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....
01 Aug (US) Right to publicity, Privacy – Olivia de Havilland, sues FX over Feud: Bette and Joan
101-year-old Hollywood legend and Oscar-winning actress Olivia de Havilland is suing FX over the television show “Feud: Bette and Joan”....
01 Aug (US) Privacy – Madonna halts auction of Tupac love letter and underwear
Madonna has obtained an order from a Manhattan court, stopping the auction of a number of personal items....
14 Jul OFCOM – PRIVACY: information broadcast on C4 News about a UKIP official’s home address did not infringe privacy
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...
15 Jun Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! Channel 5 fail to stop privacy case
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. ...
15 Jun Say Yes to the Dress, TLC – Background Bride’s privacy breached
Ofcom has upheld a privacy complaint by a bride who appeared in the background of TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress....
26 May Privacy: Liz Hurley wins damages for phone hacking
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. ...
31 Mar PRIVACY: Emma Watson to sue over stolen photographs
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....
30 Mar zoom-in brief | 31 March 2017
In this week’s zoom-in brief, film star Emma Watson instructs lawyers over stolen photographs...
19 Jan Scrapping the Human Rights Act – all change?
In the main Summer issue of zoom-in magazine, we reported that newly installed Prime Minister, Theresa May, appeared to have dropped plans...
20 Dec BBC DEFENDS SIR CLIFF RICHARD CASE
The BBC has defended the claim brought against it for invasion of privacy and breach of data protection obligations....
01 Jul CELEBRITY THREESOME INJUNCTION ROW CONTINUES
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....
01 Jul DAILY STAR IN PRINCE HARRY ‘ACCURACY’ BREACH
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....
05 Jun REPORTING RESTRICTIONS: CLIFF RICHARD IN THE CLEAR. SINGER SAYS HE INTENDS TO SUE, AND SAYS LAW SHOULD BE CHANGED
Cliff Richard has been told by police that no action will be taken against him in relation to allegations of historic sexual abuse....