The applicant is a British company, MGN Limited, the publisher of the newspaper, The Daily Mirror. In its judgment of 18 January 2011, the Court found that there had been a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) as regards the requirement that the publisher pay disproportionately high success fees agreed between Naomi Campbell and her lawyers following the British courts’ finding that The Daily Mirror had breached Ms Campbell’s privacy by publishing articles and pictures about her drug-addiction treatment. Today’s judgment concerned the question of just satisfaction (article 41).
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)