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A "tenuous claim to privacy": Hutcheson v News Group

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

Can you expect to keep a second family private? That was the ambitious hope of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson. Mr Hut...

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Reporting the Courts: a view on postponement orders

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Louise Turner

The principle of open justice has been ardently promoted in our society for many years, as was confirmed by Lord Hewart in R v Sussex Justices, ex par...

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Details of the new inquiry into press regulation and phone-hacking

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

It had been thought that the Prime Minister had pledged to set up two separate inquiries: one into phone-hacking and one into press regulation more ge...

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Public inquiries into privacy and press regulation

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

BBC Radio 4's PM programme's 'Privacy Commission' has finished hearing evidence and will presumably be publishing its report shortly. Its terms of re...

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Disclosure of documents in privacy litigation

Posted on July 06, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

What documents is a claimant entitled to demand from a media defendant in a privacy case? Last week Eady J rejected a disclosure application against...

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Phone hacking scandal reaches a new plane

Posted on July 06, 2011 by Keith Mathieson

If, as seems likely, it proves true that the News of the World did indeed hack into the voicemail messages of the abducted teenager Milly Dowler, the ...

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RPC Privacy Law Articles

This blog features regular postings on developments in UK privacy law written by specialist lawyers at RPC. The postings are intended to keep RPC's Privacy Law Handbook (see below) as up-to-date as possible and while postings do refer readers to relevant sections of the book, we hope and intend that the blog will also be a useful source of current information to those without access to the book.