Privacy cases: breach of privacy and misuse of private information

By Yair Cohen, Solicitor specialising in internet law

These are privacy cases in which Cohen Davis acted for the person whose private information had been exposed online, or was about to be. They include claims for misuse of private information and breach of confidence, injunctions with anonymity orders against named defendants and against persons unknown, and the removal of intimate images and private details from websites and search results. Each case study sets out what happened, the legal route we chose and how the matter ended.

What follows is a selection of our privacy work. Many of our cases never reach a public hearing, and judges publish only some of their judgments and orders, so a good number of the privacy injunctions we have obtained are not online at all. Six judgments and nine court orders from eight of these matters are on the public record, and the table below links to each of them. If someone is threatening to publish something private about you, start with the privacy injunctions we have obtained and how to get one. If it has already been published, read our guide to breach of privacy law.

Our privacy injunction cases on the court record

Each row is a case in which the High Court protected our client's private information. The court replaced most of the names with initials, so the records show what the judge ordered and who the lawyers were, and nothing that identifies the client.