Sicri v Associated Newspapers Ltd

Subject Matter

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Misuse of private information — Reasonable expectation of privacy — Claimant arrested at home for offences in connection with suicide bombing — Defendant publishing online article identifying claimant as arrested person — Claimant released without charge but article not updated with that information or taken down — Whether claimant having reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to general principle of pre-charge anonymity for suspects — Whether claimant’s right to privacy outweighed by publisher’s right to freedom of expression — Whether process of arrest subject to common law open justice principle — Basis on which damages to be awarded — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 12(4), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8(2), 10(2)

[2020] EWHC 3541 (QB); [2021] 4 WLR 9; [2021] WLR(D) 11, QBD