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		</div><p>A celebrity who wants to keep his name out of a newspaper story about extra-marital activities has won his Supreme Court fight.<br />
Justices ruled that The Sun on Sunday should be barred from revealing the identity of the man, referred to in court as PJS.</p>
<p>They delivered a ruling after analysing the latest round of the man’s dispute with The Sun on Sunday at a hearing in London last month.</p>
<p>The man had asked the Supreme Court to consider the issue after losing his case in the Court of Appeal.</p>
<p>Three appeal court judges had ruled in April that an injunction barring The Sun on Sunday from naming him should be lifted.<br />
But a panel of five Supreme Court justices has overturned that decision by a four-to-one majority and ruled that the injunction should stay in place.</p>
<p>The Sun on Sunday wants to publish an account of the man’s activities, but the man argues that he has a right to privacy and has taken legal action.</p>
<p>He had sued News Group Newspapers, which publishes The Sun on Sunday, claiming that publication of information about alleged extra-marital activity would be a misuse of private information and a breach of confidence.</p>
<p>Any trial of those claims is likely to be overseen by a High Court judge, who could decide to lift the anonymity injunction after analysing all evidence from both sides.</p>
<p>Four of the panel of five justices decided that there was an “absence on present evidence” of “any genuine public interest” justifying publication of the man’s identity.</p>
<p>They said an injunction pending the outcome of any trial was “appropriate” to protect PJS, his partner and their “young children” against “further invasion of privacy”.</p>
<p>They said allowing the man’s name to be revealed now would be likely to “deprive” any trial of “any real purpose”.</p>
<p>Judges have previously said that the man is in the entertainment business. They have said his spouse – named as YMA – is also well-known in the entertainment business. They say the couple have “young” children.</p>
<p>The Sun on Sunday had won the first round of the fight over identity in January, when a High Court judge refused to impose an injunction barring publication.</p>
<p>But the man appealed – and two appeal court judges ruled in his favour.</p>
<p>Lord Justice Jackson and Lady Justice King imposed an injunction preventing the newspaper from identifying the man in an article.</p>
<p>Lawyers for News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sun on Sunday, then asked three appeal judges to lift the ban after the man’s identity emerged online.</p>
<p>They told Lord Justice Jackson, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Simon at a Court of Appeal hearing in London in April that the ban should go because the man had been named in articles abroad – outside the legal jurisdiction of England and Wales – and his name could be found on the internet.</p>
<p>The man opposed the application and said the ban should stay.</p>
<p>But Lord Justice Jackson, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Simon ruled in the newspaper’s favour.</p>
<p>“Knowledge of the relevant matters is now so widespread that confidentiality has probably been lost,” Lord Justice Jackson said.</p>
<p>“Much of the harm which the injunction was intended to prevent has already occurred.”</p>
<p>He added: “The court should not make orders which are ineffective. It is, in my view, inappropriate (some may use a stronger term) for the court to ban people from saying that which is common knowledge.”</p>
<p>But the Supreme Court justices came to a different conclusion.</p>
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