Privacy International and Others v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Neutral Citation[2021] EWCA Civ 330
Year2021
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

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7 cases
  • Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha v Mark McLaren Class Representative Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 December 2023
    ...[2019] EWCA Civ 1393, [2019] ICR 1635 per Underhill LJ at [20], [46]; and Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2021] EWCA Civ 330, [2021] QB 1087 at [69]–[71]. The test is one of necessity, and what this means is that the implication must be “comp......
  • Re T (A Child)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 2021
    ...v United Kingdom (Application No 23452/94) (1998) 29 EHRR 245; [1999] 1 FLR 193, ECtHR (GC) Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2021] EWCA Civ 330; [2021] QB 1087; [2021] 2 WLR 1333; [2022] 1 All ER 25, R-J (Minors) (Fostering: Person Disqualifie......
  • DXK, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 15 March 2024
    ...basis alone. He relied on the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2021] EWCA Civ 330, [2021] Q.B. 1087 (‘Privacy International’), at [122-129], in particular the Court’s justification for the ‘victim’ requiremen......
  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council v AM
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 8 September 2021
    ...as already made clear, the order of the court does not grant any immunity from the offence (cf Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2021] 2 WLR 1333). Moreover, I note that the sentence on conviction for a first offence is absolutely restricted by......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Authorising Crime: The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 85-5, September 2022
    • 1 September 2022
    ...vSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Aairs [2019] UKIPTribIPT/17/186/CH (Privacy International (IPT)) and, on appeal, [2021] EWCA Civ 330 (PrivacyInternational (CA)).© 2021 The Authors.The Moder n Law Review published byJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Modern Law Review Limit......
  • Protecting National Security by Breaking the Law? Prerogative, Statute and the Powers of MI5
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 85-5, September 2022
    • 1 September 2022
    ...dis-senting opinions.3Privacy International et al v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Aairs et al [2021] EWCACiv 330; [2021] 2 WLR 1333 (‘Privacy’).4 Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 (Commencement and Tran-sitional Provisions) Regulations 2021,mad......
  • K D Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, The Cold War, and the Rule of Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2022
    • 1 May 2022
    ...those who are not MI5’s employees) to commit crimes (Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2021] EWCA Civ 330). Though the courts have so far said the practice was lawful – relying on weak claims about the prerogative of a sort challenged here (at ......