Watch That French Cuisine, Nurse

Earlier this calendar week inwards Tillery Valley Foods v Channel Four Television [2004] EWHC 1075 (Ch) Mr Justice Isle of Man refused to grant an interim injunction to destination the broadcasting of a boob tube programme which, Tillery alleged, contained confidential data that should non endure publicly aired. Tillery, a subsidiary of French fellowship Sodexho that supplied nutrient to National Health Service hospitals, had been suspected of failing to comply amongst wellness in addition to hygiene standards. Channel Four proposed to broadcast a programme, based on investigative journalism, which contained secretly filmed footage taken past times a journalist who worked undercover equally an employee of Tillery.

Refusing to grant an injunction, the Court took the thought that at that topographic point was no confidential data to protect. Taking the thought that this was a defamation activity inwards disguise, the courtroom considered that the filmed activities did non include anything that could endure characterised equally confidential, for instance merchandise secrets. There was also a human rights issue: nether the Human Rights Act 1998, s.12(3) no injunction would endure granted to foreclose publication where at that topographic point was lilliputian likelihood of Tillery succeeding at the amount trial.

notices that at that topographic point is a fragile residuum of competing populace interests on these facts. There is an obvious populace involvement inwards protecting infirmary patients against beingness poisoned past times bad food; precisely at that topographic point is a countervailing populace involvement inwards patients non beingness discouraged from eating nutrient without which their recovery may endure hampered.

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