JQL v NTP: Facebook comments and misuse of private information Privacy Law Cases
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This episode examines the case of JQL v NTP [2020] EWHC 1349 (QB) in the High Court. After a family feud, a comment on a Facebook post revealed information about the Claimant that she had kept private from the majority of her family. Key issues: misuse of private information, breach of confidence in a family context, reference and meaning of a social media post, extent of disclosure, threshold of seriousness for Article 8 and damages. Other cases mentioned:
Murray v Express Newspapers Limited [2008] EWCA Civ 446
PJS v News Group Newspapers [2016] AC 1081
Axel Springer v Germany [2012] EMLR 15
Coco v AN Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41
Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd (No2) [1990] 1 AC 109 (“Spycatcher case”)
Stocker v Stocker [2019] UKSC 17
R(Wood) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2010] 1 WLR 123
Lloyd v Google [2019] EWCA Civ 1599
Tamil v United Kingdom [2018] EMLR 6
Marsas v New York Times Company [2008] EWHC 3135
This episode examines the case of JQL v NTP [2020] EWHC 1349 (QB) in the High Court. After a family feud, a comment on a Facebook post revealed information about the Claimant that she had kept private from the majority of her family. Key issues: misuse of private information, breach of confidence in a family context, reference and meaning of a social media post, extent of disclosure, threshold of seriousness for Article 8 and damages. Other cases mentioned:
Murray v Express Newspapers Limited [2008] EWCA Civ 446
PJS v News Group Newspapers [2016] AC 1081
Axel Springer v Germany [2012] EMLR 15
Coco v AN Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41
Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd (No2) [1990] 1 AC 109 (“Spycatcher case”)
Stocker v Stocker [2019] UKSC 17
R(Wood) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2010] 1 WLR 123
Lloyd v Google [2019] EWCA Civ 1599
Tamil v United Kingdom [2018] EMLR 6
Marsas v New York Times Company [2008] EWHC 3135