“On 17 December 2020, the UK Supreme Court (Lords Reed, Sales and Burrows) granted the defendant in the case of ZXC v Bloomberg LP permission to appeal the order of the Court of Appeal dated 15 May 2020 ([2020] 3 WLR 838). The Court of Appeal (Underhill, Bean and Simon LJJ) upheld a decision of Nicklin J ([2019] EWHC 970 (QB)) that the publication of an article containing confidential information obtained from a UK law enforcement agency which was investigating a businessman was a misuse of private information. We had a case comment on the Court of Appeal decision …” (more)
[Inforrm’s Blog, 18 December]
First posted 2020-12-18 05:29:32
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