The High Court has ruled that exposés of affairs by celebrities are in the public interest. Over the weekend former England football manager Steve McClaren lost his bid to obtain a privacy injunction against the Sun, who then revealed that he had cheated on his wife with a former lover of another England coach, Ulrika Jonsson’s former squeeze Sven Goran Eriksson.

The decision seems to be a significant step back from the creeping privacy law established in similar past cases.

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