Cases

Campbell v MGN Ltd (QBD)

Held

The details of the Claimant's attendance at NA did have the necessary quality of confidence about it. The information giving details of her regular attendance at NA meetings for therapy must have been imparted in circumstances importing an obligation of confidence and the editor and journalists were clothed in conscience with this duty of confidentiality. The public had a right to know that the Claimant had been misleading them by her denials of drug addiction and balanced and positive journalism demanded that the public be told that the Claimant was receiving therapy for her drug addiction, but there was no public interest in disclosing without her consent the details of that treatment. Therefore, striking the balance between Art.8 and Art.10 of the Convention and having full regard to s.12(4) of the Act, the Claimant was entitled to the remedy of damages and/or compensation for the disclsoure of the details of her treatment.

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