| 1 | Privacy online: the secret policeman's blog In a recent High Court decision, Eady J held that blogging was a public activity; as a result, where no duty of confidence could be established in the "traditional" sense, an anonymous blogger had no reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of his name being published and could not prevent this. | Legal update: archive | 17-Jul-2009 |
| 2 | Breach of confidence: technical information in a database The High Court has upheld a claim for breach of confidence relating to technical information contained in a database. | Legal update: archive | 18-Jun-2009 |
| 3 | Confidentiality: leaked documents The High Court has continued a temporary injunction preventing publication of a bank's leaked internal documents. | Legal update: archive | 24-Apr-2009 |
| 4 | Right to privacy The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a hospital's failure to keep a patient's medical records confidential violated her right to privacy. | Legal update: archive | 29-Sep-2008 |
| 5 | Mosley privacy case The High Court has ruled that publication by a newspaper of an article and video alleging that M, head of the governing body of motor sport worldwide, had engaged in sadomasochistic sexual practices, infringed M's right to privacy. | Legal update: archive | 26-Aug-2008 |
| 6 | Privacy: photographs The High Court has held that the mere taking of photographs of an individual in a public street did not infringe his right of privacy. | Legal update: archive | 24-Jun-2008 |
| 7 | Privacy: photograph of celebrity's child The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal against the High Court´s decision to strike out a claim made on behalf of JK Rowling´s infant son regarding the publication of a photograph of him with his family in the street. | Legal update: archive | 23-May-2008 |
| 8 | Privacy: innocuous or anodyne information The High Court has struck out a claim made on behalf of JK Rowling's infant son following the publication of a photograph of him, holding that there remained a body of information which was innocuous or anodyne and did not raise a reasonable expectation of privacy, and the photograph fell into this category. | Legal update: archive | 24-Aug-2007 |
| 9 | Breach of confidence: it's not OK to publish spoilers After a seven-year battle, the House of Lords has upheld OK!'s damages claim for breach of confidence after Hello! published illicit photographs of the wedding of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. | Legal update: archive | 30-May-2007 |
| 10 | Breach of confidence: OK! has a cause of action against Hello! The House of Lords has held that OK! had a cause of action against Hello! for breach of confidence following Hello!'s unauthorised publication of photographs of the wedding of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. | Legal update: archive | 29-May-2007 |
| 11 | Privacy: information provided by former partner The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a High Court decision refusing to grant an injunction to BP's chief executive restraining publication of various items of information given to a newspaper by his former homosexual partner. | Legal update: archive | 29-May-2007 |
| 12 | Confidentiality and copyright: Prince of Wales' summary ... The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a newspaper publisher against the High Court's decision to award the Prince of Wales summary judgment for breach of confidence and copyright infringement in respect of his Hong Kong journal. | Legal update: archive | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 13 | Privacy: injunction restraining publication of book by former ... The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a High Court decision granting a celebrity an injunction to restrain publication of certain information in a book about her written by a former friend. | Legal update: archive | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 14 | Confidentiality and copyright The High Court has awarded HRH The Prince of Wales summary judgment for breach of confidence and copyright infringement against the publisher of The Mail on Sunday in respect of his Hong Kong journal. | Legal update: archive | 21-Apr-2006 |
| 15 | Breach of confidence The High Court has held that the publication of information, including trivial information, regarding a celebrity amounted to breach of confidence. | Legal update: archive | 24-Feb-2006 |
| 16 | Freedom of information The Department for Constitutional Affairs has published statistics of requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 during the second quarter of 2005. | Legal update: archive | 21-Oct-2005 |
| 17 | Selling privacy: Douglas v Hello! delivers a mixed message The recent Court of Appeal decision in the long-running case involving paparazzi type photographs taken at the wedding of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas has potentially significant implications for publishers' rights over exclusive stories. | Legal update: archive | 27-Jun-2005 |
| 18 | Breach of confidence The Court of Appeal has reversed the High Court's decision to award OK! magazine damages for the unauthorised publication of photographs of the wedding of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, but has upheld the couple's damages award. | Legal update: archive | 22-Jun-2005 |
| 19 | Freedom of Information Act The Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force on 1 January 2005. | Legal update: archive | 20-Jan-2005 |
| 20 | Broadcasts: confidentiality The High Court has held that information obtained from a workplace by investigative journalism for the purpose of a television programme was not confidential. | Legal update: archive | 25-Jun-2004 |
| 21 | Maintaining confidentiality of leases: Land Registry practice Making a successful application for a lease to be designated an "exempt information document" needs careful consideration, not least since the Land Registry has indicated that it treats the lease and counterpart as two separate documents. | Legal update: archive | 01-Jun-2004 |
| 22 | Breach of confidence: Naomi Campbell appeal The House of Lords' decision in Campbell v MGN Limited appears to establish for the first time in English law an actionable right for the wrongful disclosure of private information, including photography taken in a public place. | Legal update: archive | 27-May-2004 |
| 23 | Breach of confidence: privacy The House of Lords has held that a breach of confidence had been committed by the investigation of the press into the private life of a celebrity. | Legal update: archive | 27-May-2004 |
| 24 | Confidentiality of arbitrations: Court of Appeal judgment In a welcome decision for businesses, the Court of Appeal has unanimously held that challenges in court to an aspect of arbitration proceedings should generally be heard in private. | Legal update: archive | 27-May-2004 |
| 25 | Confidence and privacy: damages The High Court has awarded damages regarding the unauthorised publication of Catherine Zeta-Jones’s and Michael Douglas’s wedding photographs. | Legal update: archive | 28-Nov-2003 |