Mirror faces €1.5m legal bill after Campbell ruling

THE Daily Mirror newspaper is facing a €1.5 million legal bill after it was ruled the newspaper had gone too far in publishing details of supermodel Naomi Campbell’s fight against drug addiction.

The House of Lords held the 33-year-old supermodel was entitled to damages against the newspaper for breach of confidence.

Her victory was by a 3-2 majority, but even the Lords who ruled against her said the time had come to recognise that an individual's right to a private life under human rights laws could form part of an action against a newspaper, even though there was no specific law against invasion of privacy.