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31.10.14

Court of Appeal blocks publication of autobiography and resurrects the tort of deliberate infliction of harm

The Court of Appeal in OPO (a child by BHM his litigation friend) v MLA [2014] EWCA Civ 1277 has overturned a decision of the High Court and granted an injunction to restrain the publication of a semi-autobiographical book by a well-known performer. A book by written MLA (anonymised for the purpose of these proceedings)…