The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 2 WLR 80
Court of Appeal
Campbell
v
MGN Ltd
[2002] EWCA Civ 1373
2002 July 8,
9,
10;
Oct 14
Oct 14
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR, Chadwick and Keene LJJ
Confidential information
— Disclosure
— Public interest
— Details of celebrity's private life
— Celebrity averring publicly that she did not take drugs
— Newspaper disclosing details of drug addiction without consent
— Whether justified in public interest
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10
Data protection
— Journalist
— Data protection obligations
— Newspaper publishing details of celebrity's private life without consent
— Whether publication breaching data protection legislation
— Whether data “processing” extending to hard copy publication of processed data
— Whether newspaper exempt from data protection obligations after publication
—
Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), ss. 1, 32