Max Mosley has lost the latest battle in his campaign for tighter UK privacy laws after a judgement today from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Since leaving the FIA presidency Mosley has focussed much of his attention on the matter in the light of the scandal exposed by the News of the World.
He has been campaigning for individuals to be informed of upcoming stories so that they would have a chance to get an injunction to prevent publication.
In the case of Max Molsey v United Kingdom the seven-judge court decreed: “The European Convention on Human Rights does not require media to give prior notice of intended publications to those who feature in them.”
The judges couldn’t find any example of such a process in law and in essence supported the UK legal system: “The current UK system fully corresponded to the resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on media and privacy.”
The judgement said that in the UK the right to a private life was protected by a system of self regulation of the press, and by access to civil courts to seek damages, adding that “if individuals were aware of an intended publication touching upon their private life” they could still seek an interim injunction.
Adam Cooper F1 
Adam,
Was that headline intentional or unfortunate? 😉
Either way I thought the same as you 🙂
I couldn’t possibly comment!
You know, if ‘ol Max would just leave this alone, maybe everyone would eventually forget about that whole affair…