Three unsuccessful privacy claims in three jurisdictions have been reported this weekeend. The first and most recent was an “out of hours” inunction claim in England on Saturday 9 October 2010 by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed against the “Mail on Sunday”. He made an unsuccessful attempt to obtain an injunction to prevent the newspaper from revealing that he has been granted permanent residency in Britain. Continue reading
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Category: Ireland (Page 8 of 8)
On 18 June 2010 Ms Justice Mary Irvine gave judgment in the Irish High Court in the case of Murray v. Newsgroup Newspapers refusing Michael Murray, a serial rapist who had been released from prison, an injunction preventing a number of newspapers from publishing his address and picture. Continue reading
It has been reported that an application for prior restraint Under Ireland’s new Defamation Act 2009 has been
dismissed by Justice Kearns President of the High Court. Charity boss Michael Meegan sought to to restrain publication by The Irish Mail on Sunday of allegations that he had made inappropriate sexual advances to males in Kenya. Meegan denies the allegations.
The Application was based on the new provision section 33(1) of the Act;
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