“Giving judgment striking out the Claimant’s privacy claim in Pryor v Liverpool Womens’ NHS Foundation Trust and Lumsden ([2021] EWHC 2911 (QB)), Senior Master Fontaine, has confirmed that the English law of privacy has not progressed yet to there being a stand-alone tort of privacy. Michelle Pryor was a patient at Liverpool Womens’ Hospital. Jo Lumsden was a midwife formerly employed by the Liverpool Womens’ NHS Foundation Trust. Ms Pryor attended the Liverpool Womens’ Hospital to give birth to her fourth child …” (more)
[Jessica Baker, Inforrm’s Blog, 3 December]
First posted 2021-12-06 09:50:43
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