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Information - From: 1997 To: 1997
This page lists 3 cases, and was prepared on 08 August 2015.
Barrymore -v- News Group Newspapers Limited [1997] FSR 600
1997
ChD
Jacob J
Media, Information
The newspaper defendant sought to publish information about features of an intimate homosexual relationship. The plaintiff sought to prevent it. Held: The injunction was granted.
Jacob J said: "The fact is that when people kiss and later one of them tells, that second person is almost certainly breaking a confidential arrangement."
The court drew a distinction between the disclosure of the existence of a sexual relationship which might not amount to a breach of confidence and the publication of details about what one party of the relationship said to the other about the first party�s other relationships in particular marital relationship, which crossed the line to a breach of confidence.
1 Cites
1 Citers
Z -v- Finland; ECHR 25-Feb-1997 - 22009/93; (1997) 25 EHRR 371; [1997] ECHR 10
Halford -v- The United Kingdom; ECHR 25-Jun-1997 - Times, 03 July 1997; 20605/92; [1997] 24 EHRR 523; [1997] ECHR 32