Hello! Wins ... Together With Thence It's Goodbye, Damages

BBC has reported that Hello! magazine won its appeal against an guild of Mr Justice Lindsay that it had to pay arch-rival OK! magazine £1m inwards damages for using illicit ictures of Catherine Zeta Jones' wedding. Hello! admitted it used those photos to spoil competition OK's supposedly exclusive coverage (for which the latter paid quite handsomely). The trial judge's ruling that Hello! had breached the cinema stars' rights of privacy was yet upheld, leaving it to pay the publicity-conscious dyad the paltry amount of £14,600.

OK! may lose its damages, simply Ms Zeta Jones' appeal is undiminished

cannot believe that this dispute, which has already spawned a host of courtroom hostilities, volition cease before it gets to the House of Lords. Merpel says, "I wonder if Douglas together with Zeta Jones volition endure selling rootage rights to photos on the courtroom steps".

Full Court of Appeal determination here
Some before litigation arising out of the same sneak photos here, here, here, here, here, here and here