McKennitt v Ash

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Buxton,Lord Justice Latham,Lord Justice Longmore
Judgment Date14 December 2006
Neutral Citation[2006] EWCA Civ 1714
Docket NumberCase No: A2/2006/0118
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date14 December 2006
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116 cases
  • Peter Abbey v (1) Andrew Gilligan (2) Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 20 November 2012
    ...life and the right to the esteem and respect of other people." 34 He submits that there is a two-stage test as set out in McKennitt v Ash [2008] QB 73 at [11]. As Buxton LJ said "…..Where the complaint is of the wrongful publication of private information, the court has to decide two things......
  • Nolan v Sunday Newspapers Ltd (trading as Sunday World)
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 15 May 2019
    ...authorities to which the court has been referred are: Herrity v. Associated Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd [2009] 1 IR 316; McKennitt v. Ash [2008] QB 73; Douglas v. Hello Ltd (No.3) [2006] QB 125; Campbell v. MGN Ltd [2003] QB 633; PJS v. News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] AC 1081; and Von Han......
  • Ms E Avdonina v Delin Capital Asset Management UK Ltd and Others: 2206956/2018
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Tribunal
    • 27 April 2021
    ...the information private in the sense that it is in principle protected by article 8 ? If no, that is the end of the case”: McKennitt v Ash [2008] QB 73. 355. The ambit of ‘private life’ may extend to a person’s working life. The concept of private life also extends to a person’s reputation ......
  • Andrew James Griffiths v Louise Tickle
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 December 2021
    ...purposes. Those purposes include the need to protect the rights of others who are participants in the “story”. As Eady J observed in McKennitt v Ash, “… if a person wishes to reveal publicly information about aspects of his or her relations with other people, which would attract the prima f......
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Privacy Pre-charge And Public Interest: Where To Draw The Line
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 8 February 2022
    ...In balancing these two competing rights, the court in ZXC endorsed and approved the two-stage test, as set out in McKennitt v. Ash [2008] QB 73 Stage 1: Does the individual have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the relevant information? Stage 2: If such a reasonable expectation exists......
  • Privacy Pre-charge And Public Interest: Where To Draw The Line
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 8 February 2022
    ...In balancing these two competing rights, the court in ZXC endorsed and approved the two-stage test, as set out in McKennitt v. Ash [2008] QB 73 Stage 1: Does the individual have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the relevant information? Stage 2: If such a reasonable expectation exists......
17 books & journal articles
  • REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...per Lord Hoffmann; Campbell v MGN Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 1373, [2003] QB 633 at [70], per Lord Phillips MR; and McKennitt v Ash [2006] EWCA Civ 1714, [2008] QB 73 at [8(iii)], per Buxton LJ. 185 Hosking v Runting [2005] 1 NZLR 1 at [48]. See also [246]: “It therefore seems to me, with respect ......
  • A COMMON LAW TORT OF PRIVACY?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...argues for strong indirect horizontal effect). 29 Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd [2004] UKHL 22; [2004] 2 AC 457 at [17]. 30 [2006] EWCA Civ 1714; [2008] QB 73. 31 McKennitt v Ash [2006] EWCA Civ 1714; [2008] QB 73 at [11]. 32 See McKennitt v Ash[2006] EWCA Civ 1714; [2008] QB 73 at......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Information and Privacy Law in Canada
    • 25 June 2020
    ...450, 450–53, 462, 466 McIntosh v Legal Aid Ontario, 2014 ONSC 6136 ........................................ 113–14 McKennit v Ash, [2006] EWCA Civ 1714 ............................................................ 67 Medical Laboratory Management Consultants v American Broadcasting Companies......
  • Invasion of Privacy/Misuse of Private Information
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Cyberlibel: Information Warfare in the 21st Century? Part VII
    • 15 June 2011
    ...of the English law of breach of conidence we now have to look in the jurisprudence of articles 8 and 10”: per Buxton LJ in McKennitt v Ash [2008] QB 73 at [11]. Chapter 24: Invasion of Privacy/Misuse of Private Information ✴ 375 If the irst hurdle can be overcome, by demonstrating a reasona......
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