Eady on privacy: ‘I understand one or two people disagreed with the result of the Mosley trial’
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 11 March 2010 at 12:45
Tags: Journalism, Law, National Newspapers
Leading judge Mr Justice Eady set out his views about the developing law of privacy in detail at a speech to mark the opening of a new Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University last night.
His lengthy and detailed speech was in a nutshell hitting back at the suggestion that the UK privacy law has been made by judges (more specifically him) - insisting that all he, and other judges, have done is interpret the European Convention on Human Rights as incorporated into UK law by the Human Rights Act.
He also said that it was futile to draw generalisations from individual cases because privacy is such a difficult thing to pin down that each case must be judged on its own merits. (more…)





