Scottish Human Rights Law Group

Held that there was sufficient general public interest in publishing a report of proceedings challenging a freezing order to justify any curtailment of an individual’s right to respect for his private and family life.

The ECHR found that the Article 10 rights of the media- including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Times and Reuters- had been breached by the UK’s high court order requiring them to disclose a leaked document to Interbrew, the Belgian brewing company. The media had refused to comply with the order, saying that it would violate their …

[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 …

a speech by Mr Justice Eady at the University of Hertfordshire on 10th November, 2009
“Seeking to balance competing freedoms can never be easy. Better by far, though, if those decisions are called correctly in newsrooms or editorial offices in the first instance. The courts are making it clear that they require media responsibility. They have given their steer. They …

The Court held that the Art 10 rights of Ici Paris, a French weekly, had been violated when it was ordered to pay 20,000 Euros damages to the singer Johnny Hallyday for invasion of privacy.