Google Inc. v Judith Vidal-Hall and Others The Information Commissioner (Intervener)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lady Justice Sharp |
| Judgment Date | 27 March 2015 |
| Neutral Citation | [2015] EWCA Civ 311 |
| Docket Number | Case No: A2/2014/0403 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| Date | 27 March 2015 |
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68 cases
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Representative Claimants v Mgn Ltd
...to the unlawful interception of her telephone calls. 21 There was an issue as to whether the decision of this Court in Vidal-Hall v Google Inc [2015] 3 WLR 409 had limited the damages for misuse of private information to damages for distress. This Court delivered judgment in that case after......
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TLT and Others v The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Another
...are recoverable by these claimants for "distress" at common law and that, unless the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Vidal-Hall v Google Inc. [2015] 3 WLR 409 is overturned or qualified by the Supreme Court, I am bound to hold that damages for distress are also recoverable by them under ......
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Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd v Tamine
...Plc v Guardian News and Media Ltd [2009] EWHC 591 Al-Medenni (Nada Fadil) v Mars UK Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 1041 Vidal Hall v Google Inc [2015] EWCA Civ 311 Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd v [2023] Bda LR 121 page 2 JUDGMENT of CLARKE P 1. Mr Robert Brockman ("Mr Brockman") was, at the time when t......
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R. v. Bykovets,
...State v. Simmons, 190 Vt. 141 (2011); Breyer v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, C-582/14, EU:C:2016:779; Vidal‑Hall v. Google Inc., [2015] EWCA Civ 311, [2016] Q.B. 1003; Quebec (Attorney General) v. 9147-0732 Québec inc., 2020 SCC 32, [2020] 3 S.C.R. 426; R. v. Mills, 2019 SCC 22, ......
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11 firm's commentaries
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Landmark Decision In Vidal-Hall v Google Inc
...landmark decision of the Court of Appeal in Vidal-Hall v Google Inc ([2015] EWCA Civ 311) may lead to a sea-change in how claims are brought for breaches of data protection laws. The judgment classifies the misuse of private information as a tort and allows claimants to recover damages unde......
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Data class actions in Europe - and spotlights in Mexico, Russia and the U.S.
...under pre-GDPR UK data protection regimes will remain relevant to future claims under the GDPR. In particular, in Vidal-Hall v Google [2015] EWCA Civ 311 the Court of Appeal held that claimants affected by sufficiently serious data breaches may recover damages for distress and anxiety even ......
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Distressing Changes To The Data Protection Act
...Inc v Vidal-Hall [2015] EWCA Civ 311 Facts The claim was brought by a number of individuals who had been using Apple's Safari browser to access the internet. They became aware that Google were collecting information about their internet usage without their knowledge or consent through the u......
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Managing Speculative Claims Following A Data Breach
...was only available if an individual could show that they had suffered financial loss. However, the decision in Vidal-Hall v Google Inc [2015] EWCA Civ 311 and section 169(5) of the DPA 2018 extend the right to cover other types of damage such as distress. Examples of circumstances where ind......
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13 books & journal articles
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Reasonable Expectation and Public Interest: Would the New Zealand Tort of Invasion of Privacy 'Benefit from Re-Examination'?
...Hale. 136 OBG Ltd v Allan [2007] UKHL 21, [2008] 1 AC 1 at [255] per Lord Nicholls. 137 Vidal-Hall v Google Inc [2015] EWCA Civ 31, [2016] QB 1003 at [25] and [41]–[43]. 138 HRH Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers Ltd v [2006] EWCA Civ 1776, [2008] Ch 57 at [64]–[65]. 139 Murray v Expre......
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REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
...Lord Nicholls, whose view of the matter was accepted as “obviously correct” by the English Court of Appeal in Google Inc v Vidal-Hall [2015] EWCA Civ 311 at [25]. See also OBG Ltd v Allan [2008] 1 AC 1 at [118], per Lord Hoffmann and Law Commission of England and Wales (Law Com No 110), Bre......
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A COMMON LAW TORT OF PRIVACY?
...2014) at para 27–44: “Balancing art 8 and art 10”. 39Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd[2004] UKHL 22; [2004] 2 AC 457 at [14]. 40[2015] EWCA Civ 311 (albeit in the context of the rules providing for service of proceedings out of the jurisdiction). The Court of Appeal held nevertheless ......
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Closing the Floodgates on Privacy Class Actions: Lloyd v Google LLC
...US$17m settlement of consumer-based actions in the United States andthe claims underpinning the judgment in Google vVidal-Hall [2015] EWCA Civ 311;[2016] QB1003 (Vidal-Hall), which were ultimately settled: Lloyd vGoogle ibid at [2].6 A ‘cookie’is a small block of data that is placed on a de......
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