Cases

WB v H Bauer Publishing Ltd

Held

The claim was struck out because the defendant had obtained the information concerning the claimant in circumstances which did not import an obligation of confidence, namely by reading it in another newspaper. For the same reason, there was no claim for invasion of privacy. Had there been a valid cause of action, the defendant had no public interest defence; nor could it be said that information which had appeared in a national newspaper was necessarily in the public domain.

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