On 27 July 2015, the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris awarded damages of €8,000 to the actor Leonardo DiCaprio for interference with his private life and his image rights. Oops! magazine was ordered to publish a statement summarising the decision on the front cover. The judgment (DiCaprio v Oops!) is available in only in French. Continue reading
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The French Constitutional Court (Conseil Constitutionnel) issued its decision n°2015-713 DC on the recently adopted Law on intelligence on 23 July 2015. Reading its decision after having read the Davis judgment of the English High Court, one wonders whether legal syllogism has suddenly been replaced by useless tautology. Continue reading
The tribunal de Nanterre ordered yesterday that Closer pay the French actress Julie Gayet €15,000 in damages for breach of privacy. The full judgment is available here in French. Continue reading
“It is no longer a rumour, just the truth. For the past six months, François Hollande has been meeting the actress, Julie Gayet, in her second home, nestled in a street adjacent to the Elysée.” So began the seven-page exclusive published by the notorious French tabloid Closer last Friday (10 January 2014). Continue reading
On 10 January 2014, the French celebrity magazine Closer (which has on its masthead “les stars et les news people en live”) published a seven page special edition entitled “L’amour secret du President“. It claimed that French President, François Hollande, was having a secret affair with actor Julie Gayet. Continue reading
Let’s get the declarations out of the way from the outset. I act for Max Mosley and acted for him in his successful case against the News of the World in 2008. Furthermore I have worked with him across a huge number of jurisdictions to address online publications of the images taken from the News of the World website and immediately disseminated across the world. Continue reading
The partner of the French President, Valerie Trierweiler, has won a privacy claim against the authors and the publisher of the book La Frondeuse (“The Rebellious One”). On 5 June 2013, the 17th Civil Chamber of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris ordered the authors and publishers to pay the sum of €10,000. The magazine Point de Vue was also ordered to pay €3,000 in damages. Ms Trierweiler’s spokesman said the damages would be donated to charity. Continue reading
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