Tag Archives: blackmail
A digest of recent news (1) – UK judgments
For one reason and another, the blog has been unable to report on much of the recent news. This entry is an attempt to remedy the situation. Normal service should be resumed shortly. UK court judgments MJN v News Group A … read more
Should the parties in privacy cases be anonymised? – a summary of the recent judgments
Since the end of the summer at least eight judgments have considered whether the parties to successful applications for privacy injunctions should be anonymised. The results (in chronological order) are as follows: DFT v TFD: both parties anonymised. AMM v HXW: both … read more
Super-injunctions – an update
Super-injunctions are injunctions that prevent publication of the fact that the court has made an injunction. It is now clear that they will be granted only in those rare cases where publication of the order would frustrate the very purpose of the order or … read more
Privacy and blackmail
Those seeking to profit from making unauthorised disclosures of private information sometimes resort to blackmail, seeking to extort money from those who would prefer to keep the information private. It is clear from a number of recent decisions that the … read more
