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.

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

Back to the fight tomorrow.

Prefectdt

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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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.