Businesses and individuals regularly instruct professionals such as solicitors and accountants to advise and represent their commercial and personal interests and expect that such services are delivered competently.  So when things go wrong, it is not unreasonable to want to hold the professional to account.
Whilst a professional may have done something wrong, it does…

In Green v United Kingdom [2025] ECHR 91 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held that Parliament’s failure to have adequate controls in place to prevent Lord Hain from using parliamentary privilege to circumvent a privacy injunction protecting Sir Phillip Green’s identity, had engaged, but not violated, Sir Phillip’s Article 8 right (to respect for…

According to Ofcom, three in five teenagers have seen harmful content online in a four-week period.  Children describe seeing violent content online as “unavoidable” and say that content relating to suicide, self-harm and eating disorder content as “prolific”.
It is apt timing then that Ofcom has published its final guidance for online service providers to…

A recent Judgment of Fordham J (Mullen v Lyles [2025] EWHC 645 (KB)), reversing, on appeal, an order of Deputy Master Marzec striking out a claim for the misuse of private information, provided some useful commentary on several knotty issues that crop up in privacy cases.
Background
The Claimant was an events organiser,…

In Warren v Eubank [2025] EWHC 828 (KB), which must be one of the shortest media law judgments ever handed down, Mr Justice Jay reminded libel practitioners why a simple approach to determining meaning is often best.
Frank Warren, the boxing promoter, who is no stranger to the libel courts, has sued the professional…

In recent times we have come to think of data breaches as something that happens when an email is sent to the wrong place, a laptop is lost, or a server is hacked. We do not think about piles of paper, blowing down a suburban street.
The Ministry of Defence is currently investigating after paperwork…

We have written previously about the libel troubles of former footballer Joey Barton as a result of his antics on X/Twitter.  Those troubles continue in the form of a judgment on a preliminary issues trial resulting from his tweets about fellow former footballer, Eni Aluko, by Mr Justice Lavender in Aluko v Barton [2025] EWHC…