Breach of Confidence in UK Law

  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 mai 2007
    ... ... by unlawful means with its contractual or business relations or a breach of its equitable right to confidentiality in photographic images of the ... !) interference with contractual relations (OBG); breach of confidence (Hello!) and conversion (OBG). I shall put aside the last two until I come ... ...
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 06 mai 2004
    ... ... 10 In the proceedings Miss Campbell claimed damages for breach of confidence and compensation under the Data Protection Act 1998 ... The ... ...
  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 octobre 1988
    ... ... should not accept jurisdiction to enforce an obligation of confidence owed to a foreign government so as to protect that government's ... "(1) Were the 'Observer' and 'The Guardian' in breach of their duty of confidentiality when, on 22 and 23 June 1986, they ... ...
  • Michael Douglas (1st Respondent) Catherine Zeta-Jones (2nd Respondent) Nothern & Shell Plc (3rd Respondent) v Hello Ltd (1st Appellant) Hola S.A. (2nd Appellant) Eduardo Sanchez Junco (3rd Appellant)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 mai 2005
    ... ... THE ISSUES IN RELATION TO CONFIDENCE AND PRIVACY: THE PRINCIPLES ... photographs in this jurisdiction by Hello! constituted a breach of confidence, effectively because the reception was a private event ... ...
  • Google Inc. v Judith Vidal-Hall and Others The Information Commissioner (Intervener)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 mars 2015
    ... ... causes of action in each case are misuse of private information, breach of confidence and breach of the DPA ... These matters, and some of the ... ...
  • Imerman v Tchenguiz and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 juillet 2010
    ... ... decision on the other claimed causes of action—that is to say, breach of confidence and breach of the claimant's right to privacy, largely in ... ...
  • Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 décembre 2000
    ... ... that these images were confidential and that the defendants were in breach of confidence, and probably contract and malicious falsehood as well, and ... ...
  • Fraser v Evans
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 octobre 1968
    ... ... an express provision which imposed on his firm an obligation of confidence. The firm undertook that it would "never reveal to any person or ... 9 Second, Breach of Confidence ... Mr. Fraser says that the report was a confidential ... ...
  • McKennitt v Ash
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 décembre 2006
    ... ... are based upon alleged breaches of privacy or of obligations of confidence, said to arise either by implication of law or, in some instances, from ... Rights , the English courts have to proceed through the tort of breach of confidence, into which the jurisprudence of articles 8 and 10 has to be ... ...
  • A v B Plc and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 mars 2002
    ... ... new parameters within which the court will decide, in an action for breach of confidence, whether a person is entitled to have his privacy protected ... ...
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