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Case Law: R (Jefferies and ors) v Home Secretary and anor, Judgment leaves...
By Judgment handed down on 29 November 2018 (R (on the Application of Jefferies and Others) v (1) Secretary of State for the Home Department (2) Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport...
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Data Protection: A Doctor’s right to be forgotten – Rosalind English
An Amsterdam court has ruled that Google should delist an unofficial “blacklist” of doctors maintained by a discussion group on the internet. This is said to be the first right to be forgotten case...
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Case Law: R (P, G and W) and Anor v Secretary of State for the Home...
In the case of R (P, G and W) and Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Anor [2019] UKSC 3 the Supreme Court upheld challenges to the legal regimes for disclosing criminal records in...
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Case Law: Boyd v Ineos, “Persons unknown” injunctions against future protest...
In Boyd & Anor v Ineos Upstream Ltd & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 515, the Court of Appeal handed down a fascinating judgment exploring the tension between the exercise of the rights to freedom of...
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Straining the Alphabet Soup: Part 1, Anonymity orders in Personal Injury...
Amendments to CPR r.39.2; new Guidance issued by the Master of the Rolls; and a recent High Court decision refusing anonymity to a claimant prompt this review of anonymity orders in personal injury...
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Straining the Alphabet Soup: Part 2, Drafting anonymity orders – Angus...
In Part 1 we looked at the circumstances in which a court may be prepared to grant anonymity in personal injury proceedings, and the applicable principles. In Part 2 I consider practical issues in the...
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Case Law: Dulgheriu v The London Borough of Ealing, The line between...
Public order cases involving protests have always sparked controversy, with the collision between the state’s responsibility to ensure the smooth running of civil society and the individual citizen’s...
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The common law right to privacy in Scotland – Euan Lynch
On 16 September 2020, in the case of BC v Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland ([2020] ScotCS CSIH 61) the Inner House of the Court of Session refused a reclaiming motion in relation to...
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Online Safety Bill: Regulating content on user-to user and search service...
The dust has settled since the government released its draft Online Safety Bill. Now is therefore a good time to evaluate its aims, methods, and potential impacts, which we will do so in this two-part...
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The Online Safety Bill Part 2: Do these proposals go too far, leading to...
This post is the second part of two posts on the draft Online Safety Bill. The first post, found here, detailed the mechanics of the proposed bill in detail. This post will summarise some of the civil...
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