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Eversheds comment: Paul Weller decision in first UK privacy trial since 2012

  • United Kingdom

    16-04-2014

    On news that Paul Weller has won damages after Mail Online published images of his children, Andrew Terry, partner and media expert at global law firm Eversheds, comments:

    “This decision attracts interest not just because it relates to the children of Paul Weller, but because it is the first significant privacy trial in the UK since July 2012. The publisher made much of the historic images and comments about his children that had been widely published with approval from Weller. However, the Mail Online would still need to show that its interest in publishing on this occasion outweighed the right to privacy. Given there was no genuine public interest debate at stake here, and given the ages of the children involved, the Mail Online’s right to publish was unlikely to prevail.”

    Andrew Terry, Partner

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