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Friday Law Report: Law should afford protection of confidentiality to sexual relations
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16 November 2001
A v B and another
Queen's Bench Division (Jack J) 10 September 2001
THE LAW should afford the protection of confidentiality to facts
concerning sexual relations within marriage and outside marriage.
The application of a newspaper to set aside a restraining order
preventing it from publishing an article relating to the claimant was
refused.
The claimant, a successful professional footballer, was a married
man with a family. The defendant ...