Privacy Law in UK Law

  • Wainwright v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 16 October 2003
    ... ... He gave two reasons: The first was that the strip searching of the Wainwrights was an invasion of their privacy which exceeded what was necessary and proportionate to deal with the drug smuggling problem. Although the prison officers honestly believed that they ... ...
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 06 May 2004
    ... ... The text of the article was headed 'After years of self-publicity and illegal drug abuse, Naomi Campbell whinges about privacy.' The article mentioned that 'the Mirror revealed last week how she is attending daily meetings of Narcotics Anonymous'. Elsewhere in the same ... ...
  • 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 May 2005
    ... ... 29 THE ISSUES IN RELATION TO CONFIDENCE AND PRIVACY: THE PRINCIPLES 39–91 ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... Their publication may have invaded a residual right of privacy retained by the Douglases but did not infringe any right of OK! ... 117 In my opinion Lindsay J was right. The point of ... ...
  • Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2000
    ... ... would constitute a material breach of them, and might also constitute a breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and an invasion of privacy, which would cause irreparable harm to Michael and Catherine and that, therefore, they would have the right to seek and obtain an injunction to ... ...
  • Murray v Big Pictures (UK) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 07 May 2008
    ... ... In the action David asserts an infringement of his right to respect for his privacy contrary to article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights ('the Convention'). He also puts his claim under the Data Protection Act 1998 ... ...
  • Google Inc. v Judith Vidal-Hall and Others The Information Commissioner (Intervener)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 2015
    ... ... The problem the courts have had to grapple with during this period has been how to afford appropriate protection to 'privacy rights' under article 8 of the Convention, in the absence (as was affirmed by the House of Lords in Wainwright v Home Office [2004] 2 AC 406 ) of ... ...
  • Imerman v Tchenguiz and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 July 2010
    ... ... that he based his 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 reliance on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights ... 4 The defendants raised a public ... ...
  • McKennitt v Ash
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 December 2006
    ... ... of certain material, so this was a case where a public hearing would have defeated the object of that hearing, one of the cases for privacy that is provided by CPR 39.2 (3) (a) ... The judge enjoined further publication of a significant part of the work complained of. He dealt with the ... ...
  • R v Howell (Errol) (pet dis)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 February 1982
    ... ... Discovery constitutes a very serious invasion of the privacy and confidentiality of a litigant's affairs. It forms part of English legal procedure because the public interest in securing that justice is done ... ...
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