Bediquette

Judge bans husband from naming adulterer
By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal EditorLast Updated: 2:54am GMT 05/12/2006 

A cuckolded husband was banned by the High Court yesterday from naming a married public figure who conducted an affair with his wife. In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, Mr Justice Eady granted the adulterer — who may be identified only as CC — an injunction against the betrayed husband, referred to as AB. The judge suggested that even an adulterer might have a legitimate expectation of privacy. AB had wanted to expose CC in the media. At an earlier private hearing, CC — not his real initials — argued that he was seeking to reconstruct his family life and was concerned for the interests of his own wife and young children. He had also argued that AB should be restrained from harassing him, as he had allegedly already done by email and telephone. In his ruling, the judge said: “There is a powerful argument that the conduct of an intimate or sexual relationship is a matter in respect of which there is ‘a reasonable expectation of privacy’.”

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