Minister’s son wins gag order
The teenage son of Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman has won a High Court injunction preventing the publication of private information.
Jonathan Spelman, 17, was granted the interim order against Express Newspapers after an urgent application was brought by his mother and father, Mark, at a private hearing last Saturday.
Giving his reasons for the order yesterday, Mr Justice Lindblom said the sensitive personal information, to which the Daily Star Sunday’s intended story related, attracted a reasonable expectation of privacy, bearing in mind it was a case of a minor facing considerable press scrutiny from a tabloid newspaper.
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