R (on the application of H and another) v A City Council [2010] EWHC 466 (Admin), [2010] All ER (D) 127 (Mar)
It was settled law that disclosure of confidential information (in the instant case, an individual’s conviction for a sexual offence to identified work colleagues) should only be made when there was a “pressing need” for it. Moreover, it was no longer correct to assume that priority had to be given to the need to protect the vulnerable over the right to respect for the private life of the individual. Where competing rights under the European Convention on Human Rights were in issue, neither had precedence over the other.
