The WLR Daily case summaries
[2023] WLR(D) 242
King’s Bench Division
Prismall v Google UK Ltd and another
[2023] EWHC 1169 (KB)
2023 March 21, 22; May 19
Heather Williams J
Confidential information— Misuse of private information— Reasonable expectation of privacy— Defendants developing software application to help identify and treat acute kidney injury— Hospital trust transferring patient-identifiable medical records to defendants— Representative action on behalf of patients seeking damages for misuse of private information— Whether all members of claimant class having same interest so as to permit representative action— Whether all members having reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of information generated in course of doctor-patient relationship outside of direct care— Whether claim to be struck out or summary judgment entered for defendants—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8
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CPR
r 19.8(1)