Guest blog: Trimingham case could be first of many harassment claims against the media
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Press Gazette
on 1 May 2012 at 08:15
Tags: Law
In a guest blog media lawyer Callum Galbraith, from Hamlins discusses some of the issues for journalists raised by Carina Trimingham’s privacy and harassment claim against Associated Newspapers over its coverage of her extra marital affair with former Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne.
Miss Trimingham’s claim is said to be the first time that the claim of harassment by media under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 has been considered at trial. This aspect of the claim appears to relate to the information which was published, not the means used to obtain it. (more…)






