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Supreme Court upholds press injunction hiding identity of celeb couple in threesome story
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 20 May 2016
The UK’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld an injunction preventing the British press from reporting on a celebrity who was involved in an extra-marital threesome. The court said that there was no public interest in the person and their partner being named in the press. Although that’s mainly because everyone knows who it is already.
“There is no public interest (however much it may be of interest to some members of the public) in publishing kiss-and-tell stories or criticisms of private sexual conduct, simply because the persons involved are well-known”, said Supreme Court judge Lord Mance, according to Reuters.
He added that while there may be criticisms of the fact that the British press is being barred from reporting a story that has been widely reported elsewhere, “if parliament takes the view that the courts have not adapted the law to fit current realities, then, of course, it can change the law”.
As well as this, it was ruled that while the identity of the people in the story may be available online already, the rush by all of British newspapers to report on them if the injunction were lifted would be far more damaging to them and their two young children.
