public interest justification

He says "hypocrisy" of celebrities would be one public interest justification.

The editorial guidelines are clear: intrusions into privacy need a strong public interest justification.

I don't think the Times has done anything especially worthy in revealing his identity and its public interest justifications seem pretty threadbare.

It accepted the public interest justification put forward by Seven, that Campbell's actions left him "vulnerable to compromise or blackmail".

He added: "Because the sadomasochism was so graphically outlined, we took it for granted that there was a public interest justification."

These public interest justifications were rejected in the Magistrate's Court and, on appeal, by the Royal Court.

As Roy Greenslade noted elsewhere, his methods are not far from entrapment, and the public interest justification for his subterfuge threadbare.

Intrusive phone hacking without a shred of public interest justification is shocking and disgraceful - as everyone now belatedly agrees after years of ignoring the Guardian-led campaign.

In addition to Greenslade's campaign, politician George Galloway has also sought to challenge him, while some lawyers have complained that Mahmood has sometimes broken the law without clear public interest justification.

The publication of intimate details of private lives without the slightest public interest justification cannot be the subject of legal action, unless they have stemmed from a breach of confidence or some other legal wrong.

Thurlbeck said that he "took it for granted" before filming the orgy that there was a public interest justification for the story because of the claims made beforehand by his paper's informant, known as Woman E in the high court hearing.

Second, to underline the key role of the public interest justification for publishing a story that appears to breach the code, editors will need show not only that they had good reason to believe the public interest would be served, "but how and with whom that was established at the time."

Because consumers tend to know the prices of additional services before entering contracts with fee-for-service brokers, they are not likely to suffer from the "hold-up" that minimum- service advocates have asserted as a reason for such provisions.288 Further, the origins of these laws suggest that the asserted public interest justifications are not genuine.