Celebrity may appeal to maintain injunction

A celebrity who wants to keep his name out of a UK tabloid newspaper story has lost the latest round of a legal battle but may appeal the decision to a higher court.

Three court of appeal judges ruled an injunction barring The Sun on Sunday from naming the man should be lifted, but he wants the British supreme court to consider the case, and the appeal judges said the injunction would stay in place for 48 hours to give the man’s lawyers time to make an application to that court.

Sun On Sunday editors want to publish an account of the man’s alleged extra-marital affairs. However, he argued he had a privacy right and took legal action.