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Do we need protection from data protection?

Do we need protection from data protection? asks David Taylor as he warns barristers of their duties under the Data Protection Act 1988 . Barristers and their chambers can no ...

31 January 2012

Super-injunctions

Privacy injunction applications are to be formally monitored under a pilot scheme launched by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger.The scheme was first proposed by Lord ...

31 August 2011

Westminster Watch - June 2011

Is anything private anymore? Charles Hale and Toby Craig investigate… Did you hear the one about the ‘luvvie actor’, ‘family man footballer’ (or possibly several of them) and ...

31 May 2011

Neuberger reports on superinjunctions

Superinjunctions and anonymised injunctions should only be granted where “strictly necessary”, should be kept under review and cannot be granted permanently, Lord Neuberger’s ...

31 May 2011

WikiLeaks, Whitehall and Whistleblowers

Following WikiLeaks, Shonali Routray examines the position of UK civil servant whistleblowers. Are there safe routes for whistleblowers to raise their concerns rather than having ...

01 February 2011

A secure environment

Tony Shaw QC and Clive Freedman discuss the draft Guidelines on Information Security and Government Work

01 October 2010

“Super-injunction” Committee

The Master of the Rolls has set up a committee to examine the issues around injunctions that bind the press, including “super-injunctions”.

30 April 2010

The Changing Role of the Press

Siobhan Grey discusses the Gray’s Inn Seminar on press freedom and the Select Committee Report “Press Standards, Privacy and Libel” The incorporation of the European Convention ...

30 April 2010

Privacy law clarity

The judicial balancing act required in cases involving competing human rights has created a “fundamental shift” in the way courts “do things”, Mr Justice Eady has said. Opening ...

31 March 2010

Celebrity rights and the database State

Desmond Browne QC argues that the law of privacy should provide equal protection to both private citizens and celebrities In recent months there has been much debate whether we ...

30 November 2009

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