Court Cases of Naomi Campbell

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Media, Law, Ethics and regulation Court ruling in one of the recent cases of Naomi Campbell Case with the Daily Mirror has all the more signified the issue concerning the laws of privacy. Naomi filed two cases, one against MGM Limited and the other against Vanessa Frisbee. The first case involved the periodical Daily Mirror’s two of the articles that relates to the Campbell’s drug addiction and a photograph of her parting a meeting of Narcotics Anonymous. The issue of the case revolves around the law of privacy in UK as Naomi argued that the Daily Mirror had violated the poise in printing her picture and making public some personal and confidential information. It was not that Naomi contended on making public that she was a drug addict, but that the Daily Mirror violated her right of privacy under the Human Rights Act as well as the breach of the Data Protection Act 1998. While the court rejected the claim over the privacy law under the Human Rights Act in lieu that the information that was publicized was not much too confidential, but the second claim regarding the breach of Data Protection Act and the right to privacy under the Human Rights Act, Article 8 of the European (Lubbock, 2003). Convention of Human Rights and freedom of expression under Article 10 concluded that the media was at liberty to put into effect its freedom to "put the record straight". The Court identified that it did not require taking into account whether there was a tort of contravention of confidentiality in English law and concluded that the Human Rights Act had a considerable influence on the UK’s confidentiality law. Thus, from the perception of IT law, maybe, for the most part, the remarkable decision of the Court pertaining to the study of the clai...

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...drug addict. Thus, what seems more likely is that in the future, the media would be more careful in choosing a celebrity for exposition to the public and the celebrity would in no time chose to go to the court regarding any information that they did not want to make public and has been publicized. References Lubbock, Mark (2003) "I Want to Be Alone" -the Naomi Campbell Cases. Information Technology Briefing Cozens, Claire, 'Weak' Campbell case offers no media safeguard, claims lawyer, Tuesday October 15, 2002, Guardian Unlimited, http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,7525,811913,00.html “Naomi Campbell wins privacy case”, March 28, 2002, CNN.com, http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/03/27/england.campbell/ “A Defeat For Naomi Campbell, A Victory For Privacy?” 18 October 2002, Legal Commentary, http://www.legalday.co.uk/lexnex/simkins/simkins181002a.htm

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