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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427 cases
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Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP v Reuters Ltd and Another
...economic information, 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, volunte......
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Rashid Maqsood Abbasi v Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
...10 rights of the press in the context of the principle of open justice. At [17] he distilled the four propositions which emerged from Campbell v. MGN Ltd [2004] UKHL 22; [2004] 2 AC 457: “First, neither article has as such precedence over the other. Secondly, where the values under the tw......
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HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd
...the claimant and in favour of the defendant and its readers”. 49 The judge then cited Lord Hoffmann at [57] in Campbell v. MGN Ltd [2004] 2 AC 457 ( Campbell), where he said that: “[a] person may attract or even seek publicity about some aspects of his or her life without creating any publi......
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Aaa v Associated Newspapers Ltd
...as an informational tort in that it protects "the right to control the dissemination of information about one's private life", Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] 2 AC 457 [51]. The aspects of the claimant's privacy rights which, it is said, are engaged are the following: i) the child's interests in ......
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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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85 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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