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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
 
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