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To: maceng2 who wrote (9846)	11/11/2001 12:31:10 PM
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Re morality and the press Just saw this on BBC. news.bbc.co.uk The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Lord Wakeham has condemned a judge's decision that stopped a newspaper from telling how a leading footballer had repeatedly committed adultery. He described it as an unprecedented attack on press freedom. Lord Wakeham wants the ruling to be overthrown Last week it emerged the footballer, who cannot be named, had obtained an injunction to stop the Sunday People publishing interviews with two women who claimed to have had affairs with him. Mr Justice Jack ruled that the law of confidentiality could apply to sexual relationships, whether or not the parties had expressly agreed to keep matters confidential. Not in the interests of the public or of anybody that this sort of gagging order should be there Lord Wakeham The People says it will fight what it calls a "scandalous gagging order" and Lord Wakeham told the BBC1 Breakfast with Frost programme it was an attack on press freedom which was "unprecedented in modern times". "I have no doubt, at least I have every expectation, that it will eventually be overthrown by the Court of Appeal," he said. "I cannot believe it won't be. But if it isn't, we have got a very serious problem. But even then, we have to wait a year before the Court of Appeal is even going to hear it. "It is a very very serious attack on the freedom of the press ... it is not in the interests of the public or of anybody that this sort of gagging order should be there. Free press is very important." Rightfully exposed Sunday editions of the newspaper published the report about the footballer's alleged two affairs, although it did not reveal the names of those supposedly involved. Sunday People editor Neil Wallis described the court ruling as "disgraceful" and said it was a threat "to all our freedom". People columnist, former MP David Mellor, also criticised the court ruling and said he was rightfully exposed by the press for infidelity when a Tory government minister. Mr Mellor wrote: "Society has much more to lose by not knowing what the rich and famous get up to."

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