“In an important privacy judgment handed down on Friday 15 May 2020 in the case of ZXC v Bloomberg LP ([2020] EWCA 611) the Court of Appeal upheld Nicklin J’s finding 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. The judgment is an important confirmation of the approach taken in a number of first instance decisions that, as a matter of general principle, individuals being investigated by law enforcement agencies have a reasonable expectation of privacy …” (more)
[Hugh Tomlinson, Inforrm’s Blog, 19 May]
First posted 2020-05-19 06:24:21
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