BKM Ltd v British Broadcasting Corporation (2009)

December 14, 2009 | No Comments

[2009] EWHC 3151 (Ch)

While clandestine filming undertaken by the BBC with a view to exposing failings in a care home for the elderly might have seriously infringed residents’ rights to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8, it would not give rise to a sufficiently serious infringement of privacy rights to outweigh rights to freedom of expression under art.10. In the circumstances, the public interest had justified the clandestine filming.

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Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Art. 10 Freedom of Expression, Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Media Law, Misc.

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