Caroline's Privacy Victory Is a Threat to the Free Press ; Media

Evening Standard - London (June 30, 2004)

Author: Andrew Neil

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HARD on the heels of Naomi Campbell's victory in the House of Lords, where the law lords ruled that the Mirror had intruded too far into her drug addiction problems, comes a new ruling from the European Court of Human Rights which will give celebrities even more privacy protection from the media.

The Strasbourg court has ruled unanimously that German magazines which published pictures of Princess Caroline of Monaco going about her normal life breached her family's privacy - even though they were taken in public places.

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Caroline's Privacy Victory Is a Threat to the Free Press ; Media

Princess Caroline has long tried to stop the publication of paparazzi pictures o...

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