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Day: 15 June 2011

Case Law: Goodwin v NGN – Privacy, Intrusion and Novelty – Mark Thomson

On 9 June 2011 Mr Justice Tugendhat handed down judgment in the case of Goodwin v News Group Newspapers (No.3) ([2011] EWHC 1437 (QB)).  This is the latest decision relating to the privacy injunction originally obtained on 1 March 2011 by Sir Fred Goodwin to prevent the publication of stories about an alleged affair.  A public judgment was given at the time in anonymised form (MNB v News Group Newspapers [2011] EWHC 528 (QB)).  On 19 May 2011, following a question in the House of Lords which identified him and the information in issue, Sir Fred Goodwin agreed to the removal of his anonymity (see [2011] EWHC 1309 (QB)). Continue reading

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