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Max Mosley privacy law rejected
- 18th May 2011
Ex-Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s attempts to force the media to provide advance warning of impending stories about people’s private lives has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Max Mosley had been campaigning for a change in the law following a new article published about him by the News of the World in 2008 that revealed his involvement in some rather interesting activities. Although Mosley was awarded £60,000 in damages for the story, his case was unsuccessful.
Mosley had focused on Article 8, ‘the right to a private and family life’, claiming that this had been breached because of now having been warned about the story prior to it being published. He will have three months to request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber at the ECHR, however if this request is refused the judgement will be final.
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