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CA supports anonymity orders in personal injury approval hearings
JX MX (by her mother and litigation friend AX MX) v. Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust [2015] EWCA Civ 96, 17 February 2015 – read judgment Elizabeth Anne Gumbel QC and Henry Whitcomb of 1COR...
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The Big Fat Gypsy Judicial Review
Traveller Movement v Ofcom and Channel 4, [2015] EWHC 406 (Admin), 20 February 2015 – read judgment One of the nation’s great televisual fascinations last week became the unlikely subject of an...
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Article 11 and the Met’s “pay to protest” proposal
Photo credit: The Guardian A number of campaigning groups were recently informed by the Metropolitan Police that Scotland Yard would no longer provide traffic management at their planned...
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Why we should see Andrew Lansley’s diary in the run up to 2011 NHS reforms
Department of Health v. Information Commissioner et al [2015] UKUT 159, 30 March 2015, Charles J read judgment Simon Lewis requested that the Department of Health supply him with copies of the...
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Conscience and cake
Gareth Lee v. Ashers Baking Co Ltd, Colin McArthur and Karen McArthur [2015] NICty 2 – read judgment here. In a claim popularly dubbed the ‘gay cake’ case, which has attracted international attention,...
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Je suis James: Pianist finally allowed to tell his story of sexual abuse
Guardian: James Rhodes and friends including Benedict Cumberbatch outside Court James Rhodes v OPO (by his Litigation Friend BHM) and another, [2015] UKSC 32 The Supreme Court has handed down its...
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Phone hacking: massive privacy damages
Gulati v. MGN Ltd [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch), Mann J – judgment here For some years in the early and mid 2000s, a routine form of news-gathering in the Mirror Group was phone hacking – listening to...
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When prurient curiosity meets privacy
PJS v NEWS GROUP NEWSPAPERS LIMITED [2016] EWCA Civ 100 In an anonymised judgment dated 22nd January – but only recently published – the Court of Appeal underscored the importance of the right to...
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The “up for a three-way?” case: injunction set aside
PJS v. News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 393 – read judgment Matthew Flinn posted here recently on an earlier decision in this case, PJS (22 January 2016), in which the Court of Appeal granted...
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Three way in the Supreme Court: PJS remains PJS
PJS v. News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] UKSC 26 – read judgment The Supreme Court has this morning continued the interim injunction concerning PJS’s extra-marital goings-on until after the full trial...
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Unlimited Immigration Detention and the Right to Liberty – the Round-up
Photo credit: RT In the news The absence of fixed time limits in the UK system of immigration detention does not breach Article 5 of the Convention (the right to liberty), according to a recent...
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A cyber scene of crime – in everybody’s home
This blog has covered a number of claims for damages arising out of the misuse of private information. The Mirror Group phone hacking case is one example (see my post here and the appeal decision...
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Naming your Abusers
Armes v Nottinghamshire County Council [2016] EWHC 2864 (QB) – read judgment In a nutshell The right of a claimant to name the people who abused her prevailed over the rights of the perpetrators and...
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The Front Page in the Digital Age: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies...
A study raising concerns about journalists’ ability to protect sources and whistleblowers was launched in the House of Lords last Wednesday. The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), in...
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The clash between open justice and one’s good name
Khuja (formerly known as PNM) v. Times Newspapers [2017] UKSC 49, Supreme Court, read judgment The outcome of this case is summed up in its title, an unsuccessful attempt to retain anonymity in press...
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