I cant remember if it was from this group that I was alerted to this
judgement in the Appeal Court; Wood-v-Commissioner of Police, Neutral
Citation Number (2009) EWCA Civ 414. It can be found at
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2009/414.html
It was decided that the police had breached the human rights of Andrew
Wood, an arms trade campaigner, when they photographed him and stored
the pictures on a police database.
I read this judgement over the weekend and a few glasses of Scotch. It
is a gobsmackingly interesting one that I recommend to the group.
Despite the fact that statement may say more about me than the judgement
I suggest it would be extremely useful for those members that are on the
LLM Information Rights course at Northumbria. It deals with Human Rights
Act article 8 in great detail and also addresses data protection issues
which you don't often see when privacy issues are being argued. I was
also interested in the judges determination of personal information as
viewed from a Human Rights perspective compared with Durant's DPA def.
If HRA is figuring in any of your current course work or essays the
references given in this judgement could save you hour's of research.
The judgement was 2-1 in favour of Wood which supports a theory that I
have had for some time. If these senior judges cannot agree on privacy
issues what chance the rest of us, especially those of us who are
charged with guiding our fellows through this fog of legal uncertainty?
Chris Brogan MA LLM
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