[2011] EWHC 734 (Ch)

In a claim for damages brought against a newspaper for breaches of confidence and privacy, non-party disclosure was ordered of telephone records and notebooks in the possession of the police held in connection with its investigation into phone-hacking, as no sufficiently strong public interest had been demonstrated to show that the investigations would be hampered by the disclosures. The documents were to be redacted to protect the identities of other phone-hacking victims and some third parties and guidance was given on the form the redactions should take, which was highly relevant for other cases relating to phone-hacking allegations against the newspaper.

Ch D (Vos J)

18/03/2011