‘Privacy rights have developed massively today’: lawyers react as court rules on ‘PJS’ celebrity injunction

Privacy and media lawyers have given their take after the Supreme Court ruled this morning (19 May) that an injunction banning the naming of a celebrity involved in a privacy case over an alleged extra-marital affair should remain in place.

The public figure, who can only be named by the initials ‘PJS’, took his case to the Supreme Court and successfully appealed against a ruling lifting the ban on media in England and Wales publishing his name. The Sun on Sunday argued it should be able to publish the story as their name had already been published elsewhere.

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