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9 June 2011
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A High Court judge has refused to lift an order banning journalists naming a woman with whom former bank boss Sir Fred Goodwin had a relationship.
Lawyers from News Group Newspapers, publishers of the News of the World and the Sun, had asked Mr Justice Tugendhat to lift the privacy injunction.
Lawyers representing the woman, a former colleague of Sir Fred's, opposed the application.
Sir Fred was head of the Royal Bank of Scotland when it collapsed in 2008.
The privacy injunction was imposed earlier this year.
Last month, Mr Justice Tugendhat lifted a ban preventing journalists saying Sir Fred had a relationship with the woman - but did not allow them to identify her.
His identity was first revealed in the House of Lords, after which News Group newspapers made a court application. The judge then varied a privacy order to allow his name to be published.
News Group's counsel argued that the ban on revealing the woman's identity was stifling public debate in the aftermath of RBS's collapse.
Richard Spearman QC told the judge the matter was "plainly a matter of real, genuine, public interest".
But Hugh Tomlinson QC, who represented the woman, said News Group was seeking to build an application on "no foundations at all" and there was no evidence of any public interest.
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Lawyers from News Group Newspapers, publishers of the News of the World and the Sun, had asked Mr Justice Tugendhat to lift the privacy injunction.
Lawyers representing the woman, a former colleague of Sir Fred's, opposed the application.
Sir Fred was head of the Royal Bank of Scotland when it collapsed in 2008.
The privacy injunction was imposed earlier this year.
Last month, Mr Justice Tugendhat lifted a ban preventing journalists saying Sir Fred had a relationship with the woman - but did not allow them to identify her.
His identity was first revealed in the House of Lords, after which News Group newspapers made a court application. The judge then varied a privacy order to allow his name to be published.
News Group's counsel argued that the ban on revealing the woman's identity was stifling public debate in the aftermath of RBS's collapse.
Richard Spearman QC told the judge the matter was "plainly a matter of real, genuine, public interest".
But Hugh Tomlinson QC, who represented the woman, said News Group was seeking to build an application on "no foundations at all" and there was no evidence of any public interest.
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