Cases

Theakston v MGN Limited

Held

The Claimant had previously placed certain aspects of his love and sexual life in the press. Not all relationships of a sexual nature should be afforded the same quality of confidence. Even more so where, as here, the Claimant did not at the time he entered the brothel stipulate that his activities in the brothel should be kept confidential. Further, there was a public interest in publishing the fact that he had behaved in the manner he had, given his public role as a television presenter who was perceived as a respectable figure to present programmes aimed at young people. The photographs however, merited special consideration as the details contained in them were likely to be of an especially intimate, personal and intrusive nature, and consequently the Claimant's right to keep the details contained in them private outweighed the papers' and the prostitutes' rights of freedom of expression.

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