Campbell v MGN Ltd
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judge | THE LORD NICHOLLS OF BIRKENHEAD,LORD HOFFMANN,LORD HOPE OF CRAIGHEAD,THE BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND,LORD CARSWELL |
Judgment Date | 06 May 2004 |
Neutral Citation | [2004] UKHL 22 |
Court | House of Lords |
Date | 06 May 2004 |
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425 cases
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Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP v Reuters Ltd and Another
...and also information which corrects a false impression or image. Mr Vassall-Adams referred in that connection to Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] UKHL 22, [2004] 2 AC 457. In that case the claimant, an internationally famous fashion model, who had courted publicity, volunteered information to the......
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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)
...and authoritative consideration that has been given to this area of the law is to be found in the speeches of the House of Lords in Campbell v MGN. Naomi Campbell brought proceedings for breach of confidence in respect of an article in the Mirror newspaper which disclosed that she was a dru......
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Aaa v Associated Newspapers Ltd
...necessary in order to comply with Article 8, any existing gaps had been filled by sections 5 and 7 of the Human Rights Act 1998 [34]. 11 In Campbell, the approach of Lord Hoffmann was left untouched. In McKennitt v Ash [2008] QB 73, the Court of Appeal confirmed that "there is no English do......
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A M P v Persons Unknown
...Article 8 right with the Article 10 right. In Re S (a Child) [2005] 1 AC 593 Lord Steyn identified four propositions as emerging from Campbell v MGN Limited as being the appropriate approach to be applied by the court when both Articles 8 and 10 are engaged. At [17] Lord Steyn said: "First,......
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11 firm's commentaries
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Privilege, And This Time We Mean It
...stories of immense public interest that previously would not have seen the light of day. Footnotes 1 [2006] UKHL 44 2 [2001] 2 AC 127 3 [2004] UKHL 22; [2004] 2 AC 457 4 See, in particular, Cream Holdings v Banerjee [2004] UKHL 44; [2005] 1 AC 253 5 In re S (A Child) [2004] UKHL 47; [2005] ......
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Trade Secrets Directive Has Not Changed Substantive English Law Principles Protecting Confidential Information
...of the owner (Coco v A. N. Clark [1969] RPC 41, Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers (No 2) [1990] 1 AC 109, Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] UKHL 22 [2004] 2 AC 457). This is the equitable obligation of As between a company and its employees and other workers, in addition to the equitable oblig......
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Scope for damages for data protection violations in the UK widened by the Court of Appeal
...[2003] QB 195. 4) Article 8 ensuring the right to privacy; Article 10 ensuring the right to freedom of expression. 5) Campbell v MGN [2004] 2 AC 457. 6) OBG Limited and others v Allan and others; Douglas and another and others v Hello! Limited and others; Mainstream Properties Limited v You......
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Whipping Up A Tort: Actions Based On Privacy
...42. See for example, Lord Sedley in Douglas & ors v Hello! Ltd [2001] 2 WLR 992; [2001] 2 All ER 289 at 320. Campbell v MGN Limited [2004] UKHL 22. Lord Hope of Craighead at 125. See Lord Woolf CJ in A v B plc [2002] EWCA Civ 337, [2003] QB 195, 202 at 4: "[Articles 8 and 10] have provi......
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87 books & journal articles
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Trade Secrets' Under New Zealand Law
...RPC 33 (UKSC) at [23]: “After all, an action in breach of confidence is based ultimately on conscience”. 52 Notably, Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] 2 AC 457 (HL) at [14] (per Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead): “This cause of action has now firmly shaken off the limiting constraint of the need for an ......
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PRE-COMMENCEMENT DISCOVERY AND THE ODEX LITIGATION: COPYRIGHT VERSUS CONFIDENTIALITY OR IS IT PRIVACY?
...v Y [1988] 2 All ER 648. 20 Recall the SARS epidemic in Singapore and the need for urgent public contact tracing. 21 Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] 2 WLR 1232. 22 In the UK, the Human Rights Act 1998 brings into UK domestic law, the provisions of the ECHR 1950. To ensure adequate protection of t......
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THE BASIS FOR ORIGINALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHS
...Copyright – Photograph as Art, Photograph as Database” (2012) 25 Harv JL & Tech 339 at 349. 39 Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd [2004] 2 AC 457 at 477, where Lord Hoffmann observed that “a photograph is in principle information no different from any other information”; OBG Ltd v Allan......
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A COMMON LAW TORT OF PRIVACY?
...Clarendon Press, 1989); and Daniel J Solove, Understanding Privacy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). 6 See Campbell v MGN Ltd[2004] UKHL 22; [2004] 2 AC 457 at [51], per Lord Hoffmann, and Hosking v Runting[2004] NZCA 34; [2005] 1 NZLR 1 at [239], per Tipping J. 7Peck v UK (44647......
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