Supreme court upholds ‘celebrity threesome’ injunction

Lord Justice Mance in reversing part of the decision of the Court of Appeal in this celebrity privacy vs publication case, commented that ‘the law is there to protect the legitimate interests of those whose conduct may appear unappealing, as well as of children with no responsibility for such conduct’.

There is no public interest, however much it may be of interest to some members of the public, in publishing kiss-and-tell stories or criticisms of private sexual conduct, simply because the persons involved are well-known; and so there is no right to invade privacy by publishing them