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Max Mosley decision - end of investigative journalism or business as usual?
The judge's decision in world motorsport boss Max Mosley's action against a Sunday newspaper has been decried by UK media as an attack on their freedoms and on investigative journalism. But the judge says there is nothing "landmark" about it - it was simply a case of applying established principles to a rather unusual situation.
In this article, Bell Gully partner and media law specialist Alan Ringwood discusses the case and outlines the judge's findings, comparing it with New Zealand's legal approach to issues of privacy and defamation. He looks at some of the key outcomes of the decision for media and presents guidelines for those considering this type of "investigative journalism".
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