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Google watchers will have noted the search engine giant’s ‘action-packed’ week in the courts―winning in the Supreme Court but losing in the European Court of Justice

Google and its detractors suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, as David Greene reports

The Supreme Court has called a halt to a massive class action against Google over a data protection breach

LinkedIn has announced that it has formally signed up to the European Commission’s Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online

Facial recognition technology poses a risk to people’s privacy, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has warned in a Commissioner’s Opinion

The UK’s mass surveillance regime breaches the right to privacy and freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights has held, in a landmark ruling.

Reforms to better protect victims of ‘downblousing’, revenge porn and other intimate image abuse have been proposed by the Law Commission.

Several celebrities have settled phone-hacking privacy claims against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of The Mirror and The People.

A fine balance? David Burrows reflects on balancing public interest, the administration of justice & confidentiality

The evolution of the right to erasure & how it is now being used in practice, by Alex Keenlyside & Hannah Crowther

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Sackers—Zak Ullah

Sackers welcomes new associate

Christy Davies—Birmingham Law Society

Ward Hadaway lawyer joins Birmingham Law Society Council

Ellisons—Stephanie Westwood & Anisa Khan

Ellisons expands Chelmsford commercial litigation team with two appointments

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NLJ this week: Same fall, different claim

Construction workers injured in comparable accidents can face sharply different routes to compensation on opposite sides of the Atlantic

NLJ this week: Under pressure? Routes to redress

Victims of undue influence may have more options than simply unwinding a tainted transaction, with courts able to order profits accounts, compensation and, exceptionally, severance

NLJ this week: Liberty safeguards under strain

Disabled people could lose vital safeguards following the Supreme Court’s reversal of the Cheshire West test for deprivation of liberty, two barristers warn

NLJ this week: When partners lose faith

A formidable reputation cannot protect a law firm when partner departures, fragile finances and client uncertainty begin feeding each other

NLJ this week: The hidden price of free software

Businesses incorporating open-source software into commercial products could face obligations to disclose valuable source code, with AI-assisted development making licensing risks harder to track

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Privacy

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Sackers—Zak Ullah

Christy Davies—Birmingham Law Society

Ellisons—Stephanie Westwood & Anisa Khan