Douglas v Hello! Ltd

Subject Matter

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Breach of confidence — Injunction — Celebrity couple granting magazine exclusive rights to publish photographs of wedding — Photography forbidden at wedding except by magazine's photographer — Couple and publisher seeking interim injunction to restrain publication by rival magazine of photographs taken surreptitiously at wedding — Whether right of personal privacy subsisting — Whether publication by rival magazine breach of confidence — Whether claimants likely to succeed at trial — Whether interim injunction to be granted — Human Rights Act 1998, s 12(3)(4), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10

[2001] QB 967; [2001] 2 WLR 992; [2001] 2 All ER 289; [2001] 1 FLR 982, CA

Commentary

Blackstones Civil Practice 2023
American Cyanamid Guidelines - Undertakings in damages - Examples 37.30

Exceptional Cases - Privacy: new or extended torts 37.39

Main Provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998 - Obligations of public authorities 91.6

Privacy, Freedom of Expression and Injunctions - Article 8 91.55

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