Facts: the claimants had been convicted of two relatively minor offences some years before that stood to be disclosed to employers under the Police Act 1997.

Judgment: the Divisional Court held that even as amended the Police Act 1997 was incompatible with Article 8 ECHR insofar as it contained no machinery for testing the proportionality of disclosure in individual cases and that, in these cases, disclosure would be disproportionate.