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Mills receives £24.3m in McCartney divorce settlement

Mills/McCartney Heather Mills has announced she is to appeal against the publication of the judgment (rather than the financial order) on the issue of privacy. As many of the details of the judgment were announced by Ms Mills outside the court today, one wonders how effective that application may be. However that point raises the issue of the privacy for parties in family proceedings. In the McCartney case, both parties are well known public figures, although that does not mean that they should be denied their privacy. In other high profile cases, such as Charman, and especially the Miller case in 2006, the parties were not public figures but were subject to intense media attention.

17-Mar-2008

6:38 pm