Acquitted in the court of law, condemned in the court of public opinion – it is time to rethink privacy rights?
In February 2022, the Supreme Court unanimously held in the landmark judgment in ZXC v Bloomberg [2022] UKSC 5 that an individual under criminal investigation “has, prior to being charged, a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of information relating to that investigation”.1 The court acknowledged the longstanding and repeated “concerns as to the negative […]