Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2022 #189The appellants (the Inghams) appealed against an interlocutory ruling which set aside a privacy order.
In the proceedings below, the Inghams were seeking permission (the permission application) to bring a derivative claim (the derivative claim) on behalf of the estate of their grandmother, the late Elfrida Louise Chappell deceased (the deceased), on the basis that the executors of the deceased’s estate, Butterfield Trust (Bermuda) Ltd and Stephen Kempe (the executors), were unable to bring that claim due to alleged conflicts of interest. The derivative claim would allege that the ...
Rachel Tozer looks at the issues employers need to work through to help them decide whether electronic staff surveillance is justified An employer needs to be careful about treating one group of employees (such as remote workers) differently to another group (such as office-based workers). Recent reports that the Cabinet Office hopes to persuade civil …
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Web OnlyThe parties were four brothers. The claimant was the eldest brother and patriarch of the family. The litigation generally concerned the legal effectiveness or otherwise of two letters, by which the brothers had, inter alia, appointed one another as executors, and had stated that assets held in the name of any individual brother belonged to all four. Through an oversight, the claimant’s advisers had failed to file a certificate of suitability from his litigation friend (and daughter) when the claim was originally made, as required by CPR 21.5. A certificate was later filed togeth...
Michael Chattle and Katie Lobley explore the issue of employees making secret recordings and provide advice on how to reduce the risks that this poses ‘There is no concept that a covert recording is fruit from a poison tree and therefore automatically not to be admitted as evidence in tribunal proceedings.’ Once upon a time, …
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Rebecca Harling summarises the approach to privacy in family proceedings and asks whether the current system lacks clarity ‘Within the sphere of family justice, as with many other practice areas, the desire to promote transparency and the right to a fair hearing must be carefully balanced with the right of privacy.’ Open justice is one …
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Shlomit Glaser and Tim Jones examine issues of privacy and confidentiality in family proceedings ‘There remains a judicial discretion to determine whether the media can be in attendance and the extent to which what they witness may be reported.’ Confidentiality can be a significant issue in family proceedings for many divorcing couples. This is particularly …
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Jo Sanders and Linzi Bull set out the courts’ approach to issues of privacy relating to paternity The courts have looked at the extent to which the information is truly about a person’s own life or whether its focus is really primarily rooted in the life and biography of the other party who is opposing …
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Jessica Craigs takes a topical look at privacy, phone hacking and computer misuse ‘It is highly unlikely that a judge would agree to the family computer being impounded on the mere suspicions of a spouse coupled with a quick look at the internet history.’It was with morbid fascination that I listened to a radio programme …
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Issues of privacy and human rights, examined by Claire Sanders ‘Parties to family proceedings have rarely succeeded in restricting media access or reporting where their only concern is their own privacy.’ The decision in TK v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] illustrates the importance of privacy in family life and its interaction with freedom of …
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In the first of two parts, Alan Watts and Anna Bateman review recent cases on the law of confidence and privacy ‘Applications for interim injunctions to prevent publication of confidential information are often sought and obtained.’ The past few years have seen some significant developments in the law of confidence, such that it is now …
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