Sir Duncan Brian Walter Ouseley, styled The Hon. Mr Justice Ouseley, is a High Court judge

High Court judge

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 in England and Wales

England and Wales

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, Queen's Bench Division. He is notable for involvement in many legal cases

Case law

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 reported in the British press.

His judgements have included rejecting appeals by suspected international terrorists

Terrorism

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 against indefinite detention

Indefinite detention

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; a view overturned in 2004, when the House of Lords

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 ruled that it violates the Human Rights Act

Human Rights Act 1998

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 and the European Convention on Human Rights

European Convention on Human Rights

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As a QC

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, Ouseley represented the Chief Adjudication Officer for Social Security Administration

Social Security Administration Act 1992

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In 2002, in the case Theakston v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd

Theakston v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd

Theakston v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd [2002] EWHC 137 was a High Court judgment in which British television presenter Jamie Theakston attempted to injunct the Sunday People from publishing a story about how he visited a brothel in Mayfair, London....

, TV presenter Jamie Theakston

Jamie Theakston

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, sought an injunction against The Sunday People claiming publication of details of his visit to a brothel infringed his right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Refusing to impose the injunction, Ouseley ruled "It is not inherent in the nature of a brothel that all or anything that transpires within is confidential.