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04 April 2023 - News

Privacy Laws Help Victims of “Revenge Porn” Tackle Real Cost of Criminal Offending

A successful civil case has highlighted how privacy law is being brought to bear against reported rises in the un-consensual and abusive sharing or sale of private intimate images and films. While the criminal law was clarified in 2015 and…

04 April 2023 - News

Interesting times ahead for privacy law reform in Australia

On 16 February 2023 the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department released its Privacy Act Review Report 2022 (the “Report”) on Australia’s privacy laws. The review covered a wide range of areas largely relating to data protection issues but also one of…

27 March 2023 -

Tort of Nuisance Protects Privacy at Home

There has been wide reporting of the Supreme Court’s finding that the viewing balcony at the Tate caused an actionable nuisance to residents of the flats opposite, who found hordes of visitors and tourists gazing into, and photographing, their home…

24 March 2023 -

(Partly) Immune to Harassment Claim – Court of Appeal finds for Former King of Spain

The Court of Appeal has found that the former King of Spain, His Majesty Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón, has functional immunity under S.14.1 of the State Immunity Act 1978 to parts of a Harassment claim…

27 February 2023 - News

UKIPO announces changes to address for service requirements

On 25 January 2023, the UK Intellectual Property Office (‘UKIPO’) published a practice notice introducing changes to its practice relating to the service of documents in inter partes proceedings. As a result of the changes, applicants and proprietors of challenged…

24 February 2023 - News

Transparency in Family Court Reporting – Pilot Scheme

On 30 January 2023, a 12 month pilot scheme was introduced in the family courts in Cardiff, Leeds and Carlisle with the aim of bringing greater transparency to family court proceedings. The pilot will enable journalists and legal bloggers to…