The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 3 WLR 881
Court of Appeal
Douglas and others v Hello! Ltd and others (No 3)
[2005] EWCA Civ 595
2004 Dec 13,
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2005 May 18
2005 May 18
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR, Clarke and Neuberger LJJ
Confidential information— Breach of confidence— Damages— Celebrity couple granting magazine exclusive rights to publish selected photographs of wedding— Photography forbidden at wedding except by couple's official photographer— Publication by rival magazine of photographs taken surreptitiously— Whether couple entitled to damages for breach of confidence— Whether resulting restriction on freedom of expression “prescribed by law”— Whether couple's right to protect private information transferable to authorised publisher— Whether authorised publisher having cause of action against rival publisher for economic torts of unlawful interference with business or conspiracy to injure— Measure of damages—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 12(3)(4), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10
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