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Mosley Sex Story Shouldn’t Prompt Curbs on Media, Court Says
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Max Mosley lost a court bid to force journalists to contact people before publishing potentially embarrassing details of their private lives, a case prompted when a News Corp. newspaper reported he’d taken part in a Nazi-themed sex party without calling him beforehand.
The record award the High Court in London granted the former Formula One president for breach of his privacy was “an adequate remedy” that averted the “chilling effect” a prior-notification requirement could have on the media, the European Court of Human Rights ruled today.