Court prevents publishing of Jagger-Best romp

Model Elizabeth Jagger won a temporary injunction today preventing further publication of CCTV footage showing her engaged in “sexual activities” with boyfriend Calum Best in a nightclub.

Neither the 20-year-old elder daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall nor Mr Best – the son of soccer legend George Best – was at London’s High Court for the hearing before Mr Justice Bell.

The judge granted the order preventing disclosure or publication of the footage or any still from it, either original or copied, against John Darling, the manager of the London Kabaret’s Prophecy Nightclub.

Mr Darling did not attend and was not represented.

The judge said that Miss Jagger and her boyfriend “engaged in sexual activities” just inside the closed front doors of the club at 4am on February 17, unaware that they were being recorded by a camera they had not noticed above them.

They were where they might be surprised by someone passing close to them but could not otherwise be seen.

On the evidence before him, said the judge, she had a “legitimate expectation of privacy”.

“Although the claimant may be said to be guilty of misconduct in a most general sense, she was not in my view on the present information guilty of such moral turpitude as to prevent her seeking her remedy from the court.”

The balance between her right and Mr Darling’s right to freedom of expression - on the present evidence – fell firmly in favour of restricting publication.