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On 21 May 2015, a High Court judge granted an injunction preventing the public broadcaster RTÉ from broadcasting confidential banking information concerning an Irish businessman. The judge announced that he would publish a “redacted” judgment at a later date and ruled that some of his conclusions could not be reported by the media until lawyers agreed on which parts of the judgment should be redacted. The 48-page redacted judgment was published on 3 June 2015. But, on 29 May 2015 and before the redacted judgment was published, a Member of Parliament disclosed some of the confidential banking information...

A new set of guidelines on open justice and reporting restrictions in the criminal courts has been published by the Lord Chief Justice, the News Media Association (NMA), the Society of Editors and the Media Lawyers Association, who were all involved in their preparation. The new guidelines take account of recent changes relating to anonymity for those under 18 and in cases concerned with female genital mutilation. The basic principle is that of open justice, requiring that proceedings must be held in public, evidence must be communicated publicly and fair, accurate and contemporaneous media reporting...

The cases concerned claims based on infringements of privacy rights as a result of the unauthorised access by one person of another’s voicemail/answering machine (phone hacking). The defendant was the proprietor of three newspapers - the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and The People. The claimants were eight persons in the public eye, such as actors, sportsmen or people with an association with such people. The claimants argued that journalists listened to messages left on the claimants’ respective voicemail services and also listened to the voicemail messages left by the claimants on the phones...

The San Diego Attorney General announced, on 4 April 2015, that the owner of a now-offline "revenge porn" website based in California was sentenced to 18 years in prison, after being charged with 31 felony counts, including conspiracy, identity theft and extortion. The owner was convicted of six counts of extortion and 21 counts of identity theft for developing a website that allowed people to post explicit images of people without their permission, allowed users to post personal information of the people in the pictures without their consent and solicited payments in $250 to $350 increments from...

In a judgment on preliminary relief proceedings on 17 April 2015, the District Court of Amsterdam rejected a privacy claim over the broadcast of a secret recording being. The plaintiff had received an area ban for the living area of his ex-girlfriend. The woman also pressed charges against him for stalking her and in the meantime contacted a broadcaster that airs a programme about stalking. On 12 April 2015, the broadcaster announced that within a week they would devote attention to the situation of the woman. The broadcast would show secret recordings of the plaintiff looking over the woman’s...