Here 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 →