“Singer Madonna is claiming more than £5m in damages after the Mail on Sunday published private photographs of her wedding to film director Guy Ritchie.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government has rejected calls for a law that would require significant data security breaches to be notified to the country’s privacy regulator. It said that notification to the Information Commissioner should be a matter of good practice, not law.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Council staff are said to have spied on the young parents at night as part of a plan to see if they were fit to look after their baby, who was sleeping in another room. The mother and father were forced to cite the Human Rights Act, which protects the right to a private life, before the social services team backed down and agreed to switch off the surveillance camera while they were in bed together. The case is highlighted in a new dossier of human rights abuses carried out against vulnerable and elderly adults in nursing homes and hospitals across Britain.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Sienna Miller has reached a settlement with Big Pictures, the photo agency run by Darryn Lyons, over harassment and invasion of privacy that includes an agreement about where the actor can and cannot be photographed.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Marco Pierre White lost his privacy action yesterday against lawyers acting for his wife who obtained his private documents.”
The Times, 20th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“‘Hypocrite!’ cry the lawyers and privacy claimants. Well they might. The outrageous claim by Paul Dacre, Editor of the Daily Mail, that Mr Justice Eady is condoning ‘depraved’ practices by applying the law is rich, coming from him.”
The Times, 20th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Marco Pierre White’s claim leaves Mr Justice Eady cold as divorce lawyers prepare to dine out on their victory.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lord Pannick believes the judiciary should defend itself against unjustified criticism which may, unless answered, damage its reputation.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Heather Mills has made a series of complaints to the UK’s press watchdog about alleged harassment, inaccurate reporting and invasion of privacy over articles in four newspapers, including the Sun and Daily Mail.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Public authorities who want to keep information secret to protect the commercial interests of companies they work with must explain exactly what damage will be done by disclosure, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“When Mr Justice Eady retreats to the anonymity of his isolated cottage in Kent this weekend, he will no doubt breathe a large sigh of relief at being able to escape the burning heat of a media spotlight which has shone on him like never before.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“This comment was issued in response to a speech by Mr Paul Dacre, Editor of the Daily Mail, to the Society of Editors.”
The Judiciary of England and Wales, 10th November 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Four leading Queen’s Counsel have made an unprecedented defence of the judge accused by newspaper chiefs of singlehandedly creating a privacy law.”
The Times, 11th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Senior lawyers hit back yesterday at the editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, after he railed against the ‘wretched’ Human Rights Act and a high court judge whose judgments he described as ‘arrogant and amoral’.”
The Guardian, 11th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former Lord Chancellor rode to the rescue today of the High Court judge accused by a leading newspaper editor of creating a privacy law by the back door.”
The Times, 10th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Universities are being asked to set up surveillance units to monitor the movements of international students in a government-led crackdown on bogus student immigration scams, academics say.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre has launched an attack on a High Court judge, accusing him of bringing in a privacy law by the back door.”
BBC News, 9th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A person does not have to be identifiable by name for details of their computer usage to be protected by data protection laws, a senior European privacy watchdog has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Chancery Division
“Documents created by one party and sent to another did not necessarily cease to be correspondence, to which the privacy provisions of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights could apply, when they were received by the latter.”
The Times, 6th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“The proliferation of ever larger centralised databases is increasing the risk of people’s personal data being lost or abused, the government’s official privacy watchdog claims today.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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