Recent Cases
Case details
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Unlawful internal disclosure of personal photographs
1 February 2011
We acted in a breach of confidence and misuse of private information case on behalf of an officer whose personal photographs from her mobile phone were unlawfully disclosed in breach of confidence and misuse of her private information.
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Mediation success in breach of confidence claim against local authority
1 October 2010
We acted for this police officer and his wife in their claims for breach of confidence and misuse of private information against South Hams District Council. The claims arose as a result of the disclosure by a Council employee to the Hodgsons’ neighbours of an Anti-Social Behaviour Diary Mr Hodgson had kept.
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Preventing publication of private photographs
1 February 2010
A national newspaper had threatened to publish a story and photographs of a Special Constable in West Midlands Police, after she sold a mobile phone but had failed to delete private photographs which were stored on it.
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Misuse of private information claim brought against the BBC
1 April 2009
In one breach of confidence case, the claimant was filmed by the BBC as he walked towards Wolverhampton Crown Court where he is the Bailiff. The film clip was then used in two Midlands Today News broadcasts on 28 January 2009 to illustrate a report about the trial of a surgeon accused of indecently assaulting 5 boys some years previously during the course of treatment.
