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Privacy and the media
Should 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…
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David Eady and privacy
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…