Instead, Olswang are mixing things up, by reportedly contending breach of privacy, confidence and computer misuse (computer misuse surely is better redressed as criminal matters).
Claims for breach of privacy, confidence and data protection, such as the allegations of phone hacking and other abusive behaviour that resulted in the Leveson Inquiry, would be covered, as would defamation claims.
The supermodel Naomi Campbell claimed her former employee Vanessa Frisbee had breached her privacy and confidence by selling information to a newspaper about her romantic life.
Intriguingly, by some quirk of coincidence West Ham's lawyer, Henri Brandman, describes his areas of civil-litigation expertise as "including breach of contract, defamation, privacy and confidence, human rights [and] copyright".
However, providing different levels of visibility in an open Web-based environment is challenging, due to conflicting needs: to keep the annotation process simple, to ensure adequate levels of privacy and confidence to users, and to allow users to filter out irrelevant information.
They will tell their friends about everything they've done sexually with their man, but they will keep it within the privacy and confidence of their close friends.
38 39 In addition, they also adopted alternative techniques such as audio computer-assisted self-interview or other self-administered methods to maintain privacy and confidence about sexual activity questions.
Among his areas of practice he lists media law - defamation, confidence, privacy and data protection, copyright and contempt of court.
But for them to do so, we also need stronger safeguards and limits to protect our privacy and sustain confidence in their vital work.
Repeating calls to see a copy of her file, Diane Abbott said it was a "breach of the privacy and the confidence of the very many people I worked with down the years on the campaigning I did in the 1990s".
The Leveson report recommends that "exemplary damages (whether so described or renamed as punitive damages) should be available for actions for breach of privacy, breach of confidence and similar media torts, as well as for libel and slander".
