Cases

A v B plc (Flitcroft v MGN Ltd)

Facts

The Claimant, a married Premiership footballer, sought an injunction to prevent the first Defendant newspaper from disclosing or publishing information concerning sexual relationships that he had had with the second Defendant and another woman and to restrain any disclosure by those women to anyone with a view to such information being published in the media. On the Claimant's application, an interim injunction was granted. The judge refused the newspaper's subsequent application to set aside the injunction on the merits, holding that the law of confidentiality should afford the same protection to sexual relationships outside marriage as to sexual relationships within marriage and that, since there was no public interest in the publication of the details relating to the claimant's relationships, the claimant was likely to succeed at trial in restraining publication of the information. The Defendants' appealed.

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