The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 3 WLR 194
Court of Appeal
McKennitt and others v Ash and another
[2006] EWCA Civ 1714
2006 Nov 21,
22,
23;
Dec 14
Dec 14
Buxton, Latham and Longmore LJJ
Confidential information
— Disclosure
— Public interest
— Defendant's book disclosing details of claimant musician's private life
— Author formerly close friend of claimant
— Whether breach of confidence
— Whether violation of right to privacy
— Whether author's right to freedom of expression outweighing claimant's right to private life
— Whether court entitled to apply previous decision of European Court of Human Rights
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10