Supreme Court: Individuals Have Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Until Charged

On 16 February 2022, the UK Supreme Court in Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5 unanimously upheld the decisions of two lower courts that Bloomberg was wrong to publish an article identifying a US executive who was under investigation in relation to allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption as he had a reasonable expectation of privacy unless and until he was charged.

McDermott’s Simon Airey, James Dobias, Joshua Domb and William Merry analyze the case and its importance for the development of English privacy law more generally.