“A photograph posted on Twitter that may have exposed the new identity of James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables was on Wednesday night being investigated by the Attorney General’s office as a possible contempt of court.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A triple killer guilty of ‘exceptionally horrific’ and ‘unprovoked’ crimes has been granted anonymity to protect his human rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Commercial Court has resisted an application to anonymise those individuals at Barclays involved in the LIBOR scandal.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Barclays has been forced to reveal the identities of more than 100 employees who had been attempting to keep their names out of the public domain ahead of a case involving the alleged manipulation of the Libor rate.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 100 bankers have failed in a bid to prevent their names being revealed during preliminary hearings of a high court case centred on alleged rigging of the key London interbank offered rate (Libor) by Barclays staff.”
The Guardian, 21st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who named a woman raped by Wales and Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans has been told to pay more than £1,600 in fines, costs and compensation.”
BBC News, 21st January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Bristol City Council v C and others [2012] EWHC 3748 (Fam). This was an application for a reporting restriction order arising out of care proceedings conducted before the Bristol Family Proceedings Court. The proceedings themselves were relatively straightforward but, in the course of the hearing, information came to light which gave rise to concerns of an ‘unusual nature’, which alerted the interest of the press.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Panopticon has reported recently on the ICO’s new Code of Practice on Anonymisation: see Rachel Kamm’s post here. That Code offers guidance for ensuring data protection-compliant disclosure in difficult cases such as those involving apparently anonymous statistics, and situations where someone with inside knowledge (or a ‘motivated intruder’) could identify someone referred to anonymously in a disclosed document. The Upper Tribunal in Information Commissioner v Magherafelt District Council [2012] UKUT 263 AAC grappled with those issues earlier this year in the context of disclosing a summarised schedule of disciplinary action.”
Panopticon, 13th December 2012
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“This fascinating case comes to light in the midst of general astonishment at the minimal attention paid in the Leveson Report to the ‘wild west’ of the internet and the question of social media regulation.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th December 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“In personal injury proceedings involving a child it was appropriate to grant an anonymity order prohibiting her identification since it would defeat the purpose of the proceedings to ensure that she received and kept compensation awarded for her injuries.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th November 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
In re Press Association [2012] EWCA Crim 2434; [2012] WLR (D) 343
“The court did not have the power under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 nor under section 1(2) of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 to make an order anonymising the name of a defendant. It was for those responsible for decisions relating to publication to ensure that the provisions which protected the public identification of a complainant in sexual cases were obeyed and they did so, not because there were enjoined to do so by judicial order, but because it was a statutory requirement.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today published its data protection code of practice on managing the risks related to anonymisation. The code explains how to protect the privacy rights of individuals while providing rich sources of data.”
Information Commissioner’s Office, 20th November 2012
Source: www.ico.gov.uk
“The Court of Appeal has overturned an order made by a Cambridge judge who said a convicted rapist could not be identified by the media.”
BBC News, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Nine people have been fined after admitting to revealing online the identity of a woman raped by the footballer Ched Evans.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It is now possible to report that school teacher Jeremy Forrest appeared in court on child abduction charges, after a magistrate court relaxed an unusual court order that had prevented the defendant from being named.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A member of the British security services has been granted anonymity for a trial in which he is accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague within the intelligence community.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two people have been charged with offences relating to messages posted online that identified the victim in the rape case which led to the conviction of footballer Chedwyn (Ched) Evans.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 8th October 2012
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ordered the the disclosure of serious allegations made against a parent by an anonymous third party in contact proceedings. In doing so, it has demonstrated the correct approach to balancing the many different human rights considerations involved.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Maths teacher Jeremy Forrest, who disappeared with one of his 15-year-old pupils, might not have been identified to the public under controversial laws that come into force next week.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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