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Max Mosley wins the day
The BBC News has just told me the best news I’ve heard all week: Max Mosley has just won his privacy case against News Of the World.
I know he wasn’t standing up for the whole of the Scene; he was biting back for the lies and the humiliation he personally had to suffer. All the same, I believe that all of us in the Scene (particularly the spanking professionals, the, ahem, purrrr-rostitutes!!! as the press likes to call us these days) stand to gain from his ruthless pursuit of the pond scum that’s NotW.
Guess what, though. Paul of Northern Spanking? Still out of work as the direct result of the scandal. And my guess is, he’s unlikely to be suing anybody. Give NSI your financial love, people.
I’m sure I’ll be writing more about all this after my thoughts settle a bit.
P.S. Girls A, B, C, and D, well done for testifying, you brave souls.
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I would have been happier if the punitive damages sought had been awarded too.
According to what I have read awarding such appears to be beyond the remit of the court in which this case was heard. Here’s hoping that MM succesfully takes it on to a higher court and gets the punitive aspect set in precedent.
A pleasing result, despite the lack of the exemplary damages which might erally give the NotW pause to think. I loved the pathetic whining of the rag’s editor. True Murdoch form, blaming t all on the dreaded Europeans. “Gott in Himmel! Let us forbid der Britischer Schweinhunde der pleasure of reading scabrous gossip!”
Hopefully, as a result of this ruling, reporting ‘in the public interest’ will now require a significantly higher threshold of justification than simply satisfying the curiosity of people who would not normally venture beyond Page 3, or simply providing material for Daily Mail readers to articulate over at their otherwise boring dinner parties.
“Guess what, though. Paul of Northern Spanking? Still out of work as the direct result of the scandal. And my guess is, he’s unlikely to be suing anybody. Give NSI your financial love, people.”
Thankyou. I’ve been treated to seeing far too many threads today where people are crowing about how great a victory it is, and how everything is back to normal now.
It’s not. Lives are still ruined, and the other gutter press are still going to be sniffing about for any bit of info they can find on us underground pervs.
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I don’t think that anyone has forgotten about the victims of this or all the other incidents that have happened and are still happening but with so much negative news around for the kinksters of the world It is only reasonable for people to take a few minutes to cheer a victory.
Back to the fight tomorrow.
Prefectdt
Hello Adele
Naturally I’m glad that Mosley prevailed. I’d respect him even more if he stood up for our friends at NS, who don’t have the wherewithal to do it themselves.
One downside of British jurisprudence: I’ve seen estimates that Mosley’s legal expenses may have been in excess of ₤850,000. In other words, in British courts the stinking rich may get justice, but it’s nearly impossible for the rest of us.
Yrs in pervery, Adrian
U R so right, Adrian! In England and everywhere else, there exists only the very best justice that money can buy. I’m glad he prevailed in this case, but it would show some good taste, since he seems to have the where-with=all, to help out a fellow pervy in need…
Who’s to say he hasn’t? Or isn’t? And if so, it’s probably best not made public knowledge.
The only down side of the verdict has been having to read the usual trash from Myler, blaming it all on crafty europeans sneaking in privacy laws ‘by the back door.’ Here’s a more accurate picture.
In 1997, the family of Gordon Kaye – a British actor famous for a corny sitcom called ‘Allo ‘Allo – tried to sue The Sunday Sport. Kaye had been involved in a serious accident that had left him in a coma. A photographer working for the Sport found his way into Kaye’s hospital room and photographed him in his unconscious state, being artifically fed, for the titillation of the people who read that most trashy of rags.
The judge in that case had to tell the family, with great regret, that they couldn’t win because there was no such thing as a right to privacy in English law.
Come 1998, the Labour government chose to fulfil their election pledge by introducing the Human Rights Act. Contra the repeated f*cking lies of the f*cking scumbag liar Myler, this was not introduced by stealth, or by ‘europe’, but by a democratically elected British government. The Act mostly regulates relations between citizens and the state, but it also has a degree of ‘horizontal application’. Specifically in this case, it allowed (or maybe obliged) judges to recognise a right of privacy, not just against snooping state agencies, but against other individuals.
Obviousy, the gutter press hate this, because it means they can no longer sneak into the hospital rooms of comatose, critically ill people and splash their pictures all over their papers. Most decent human beings, it may be assumed, are quite pleased about this state of affairs.
So well done Max Mosley, well done Justice Eady, well done the ‘professionals’ who had the guts to testify, and well done Labour for introducing the HRA (and god knows I get little enough opportunity to say the last in recent times!). When the parasitic pond-slime of our gutter press are so p*ssed off about something, it’s a pretty good bet the rest of us should be cheering about it.