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18 October 2007
Issue: 7293 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Human Rights

Murray (by his litigation friends) v Express Newspapers plc and another [2007] EWHC 1908 (Ch D), [2007] All ER (D) 39 (Aug)

Routine activities conducted in a public place, such as walking down the street or visiting the shops, do not attract any reasonable expectation or guarantee of privacy so that an individual who had been photographed in a public place cannot rely on the right to respect for his private and family life under the Convention, Art 8, unless there are some other special circumstance such as harassment or distress.

Issue: 7293 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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