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Fri 07 Jul 2008Mosley ruling does not appear to threaten public interest defence
'News of the World's' bungled handling of the sordid sex story means there is little sympathy for it among its peers, wriets Roy Greenslade
THE JUDGE who yesterday ruled that the motor racing chief Max Mosley had suffered gross intrusion into his privacy by the News of the World commented in his judgment: "There is nothing 'landmark' about this decision." Mr Justice Eady was right in a legalistic sense. He dealt with the case in similar terms to those that he and other British judges have applied in libel trials. He decided against the paper on the grounds that there was no public interest to justify publishing the story.
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