The UK’s Sunday Mirror Publisher Loses in Landmark EU Privacy Case

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By: Paul Sawers | TheNextWeb.com

Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) has lost its latest bid to overturn a privacy ruling actioned in the French courts by actor Olivier Martinez, reports the Guardian.

MGN publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, as well as the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Scotland, and French actor Martinez successfully sued the group in 2008 following an article published online about his relationship with then-partner Kylie Minogue. The publisher argued that a French court didn’t have the power to rule over an English-language story published on a UK website, and thus took its case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe’s highest court.































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