Attention-seeking behaviour a no-no for privacy: Stoute v News Group Newspapers upheld by the Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s decision in a misuse of private information claim that an injunction should not be granted in respect of photographs published in print and online in The Sun newspaper. Richard and Sarah Stoute run Full Support Health Care Limited ("FSHL"), a company that secured £2 billion worth of government contracts to supply PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs of the Stoutes were taken by paparazzi, which pictured them arriving on a public beach by jet ski and then walking into a restaurant. After the High Court refused to grant an injunction restricting publication of the photographs, the couple took their claim to the Court of Appeal.