In the Daily Mail today there is a NIB (news in brief) on page five detailing a gagging order to protect a sports star who currently is protected by an injunction. The star is a household name who cannot be identified under the terms of the injunction and neither can his secret but there was another hearing today which may mean the injunction will be modified.
Mr Justice Tugendhat - the most senior privacy judge - told the paper that the sports star who is not a footballer should be unmasked, although the facts of the allegation against him should remain secret. This is just one more case of a celebrity preventing details of their private life being published. This is an awkward area of law for journalists as it does breach privacy law but sometimes they are necessary breaches in the public interest etc.
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