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A television star has had his anonymity maintained in the face of a threat to release personal information.
Mr Justice Tugenhadt ruled in the High Court that an injunction be imposed to prevent the...
The end of the road for bans on gay marriage and heterosexual civil partnerships?
Under current law, same sex couples cannot enter into a civil marriage and different sex couples cannot enter into civil partnership. However, Human Rights organisation OutRage are starting a challenge...
RIPA law is proportionate and doesn’t breach privacy or human rights – Kennedy v UK, the European Court of Human Rights
A man who claimed that the UK’s interception laws had wrongfully interfered with his privacy rights has lost his case. Malcolm Kennedy was a prominent campaigner against miscarriages of justice after...
Parliamentary group advocates journalists informing subjects of their stories before going to print
The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee has issued a report calling for the Press Complaints Commission to recommend journalists to pre-notify people who are the subject of stories before...
Freedom of Speech 1 John Terry 0 – LNS v Persons Unknown, High Court
The recent tidal wave of the developing laws of privacy has been halted with the High Court’s recent refusal to continue an injunction stopping the reporting of the indiscretions of a footballer. John...
Premier League boss caught in a brothel – but tabloids unable to reveal his identity because of creeping privacy laws
A football Premier League manager has been caught virtually with his trousers down in morally questionable circumstances. However, The Sun newspaper (which broke the story) and other tabloids have been...