The Weekly Law Reports
[2001] 2 WLR 992
Court of Appeal
Douglas and others v Hello! Ltd
2000 Nov 22,
23;
Dec 21
Dec 21
Brooke, Sedley and Keene LJJ
Confidential information
— Breach of confidence
— Injunction
— Celebrity couple granting magazine exclusive rights to publish photographs of wedding
— Photography forbidden at wedding except by magazine's photographer
— Couple and publisher seeking interim injunction to restrain publication by rival magazine of photographs taken surreptitiously at wedding
— Whether right of personal privacy subsisting
— Whether publication by rival magazine breach of confidence
— Whether claimants likely to succeed at trial
— Whether interim injunction to be granted
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 12(3)(4), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10[1]