Max Mosley: Sex, secrets and super-injunctions

May 10th, 2011

European Court finds against Mosley and throws responsibility back to Parliament — now MPs need to find a way to balance privacy against open justice and free expression, Geoffrey Robertson writes
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Max Mosley loses “prior notification” bid

May 10th, 2011

Former motorsport chief Max Mosley has failed in his bid to to impose a legal duty of “prior notification” on the press. Mosley brought a case in front of the European Court of Human Rights after UK newspaper the News of the World published details of his sex life. (more…)

Should we scrap superinjunctions?

May 9th, 2011

This piece first appeared in the Observer

Ahead of tomorrow’s crucial European judgment on privacy and prior notification, we recap Max Mosley and John Kampfner’s recent privacy debate. Are court gagging orders on newspaper exposés an abuse of privacy laws by the rich, or a safeguard against tabloid intrusion into family life?
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Strasbourg Court must reject prior notification

January 11th, 2011

Peter Noorlander of the Media Legal Defence Initiative warns that today’s action by Max Mosley at the European Court of Human Rights could have grave consequences for free media
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Private lives

November 7th, 2008

Privacy cases in the UK continue to pose a significant challenge to press freedom, says Gavin Millar
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Slightly chilled

July 25th, 2008

The latest high-profile, UK privacy case raises critical questions for press freedom, writes Jo Glanville
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Mosley injunction rejected

April 9th, 2008