Tag Archives: Max Mosley

Privacy and the media

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'Time...What's Next?' by BonnafShould these mat­ters be private?

  • The state of Steve Jobs’ health. Jobs heads a busi­ness val­ued at US$140bn, its stock trades pub­licly on the NASDAQ.
  • The pos­sible extra-marital liais­ons of John Edwards. Edwards is a former Sen­ator, V-P can­did­ate, and ran for the 2008 Demo­cratic Pres­id­en­tial nom­in­a­tion. He is not a cur­rent office holder. His wife is suf­fer­ing from breast cancer.
  • The extra-marital sexual pro­cliv­it­ies of Max Mos­ley. Mos­ley is Pres­id­ent of the Fédéra­tion Inter­na­tionale de l’Automobile which con­trols For­mula 1, a sport fran­chise that makes about US$4bn a year internationally.

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David Eady and privacy

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News of the World - Mosley storyHere are my excerpts from David Eady’s judg­ment in Mos­ley vs News Group News­pa­pers Ltd:

The law now affords pro­tec­tion to inform­a­tion in respect of which there is a reas­on­able expect­a­tion of pri­vacy, even in cir­cum­stances where there is no pre-existing rela­tion­ship giv­ing rise of itself to an enforce­able duty of con­fid­ence. That is because the law is con­cerned to pre­vent the viol­a­tion of a citizen’s autonomy, dig­nity and self-esteem. It is not simply a mat­ter of “unac­count­able” judges run­ning amok. Par­lia­ment enacted the 1998 stat­ute which requires these val­ues to be acknow­ledged and enforced by the courts… Con­tinue read­ing →