The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2004] 2 AC 457
House of Lords
Campbell
v
MGN Ltd
[2004] UKHL 22
2004 Feb 18,
19;
May 6
May 6
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Carswell
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 treatment and publishing photographs of her leaving self-help group meeting
— Whether violation of right to privacy
— Whether justified in the public interest
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 41), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10