Meanwhile, Mosley – who is believed to have employed former
News of the World editor and one-time PR advisor to Heather Mills, Phil Hall, to instruct him on public relations matters – is seeking to prevent the Sunday tabloid's video footage of his activity with the five prostitutes from being shown in France.
He has already proved unsuccessful in a similar attempt to get the 90-second clip banned in the UK, after High Court Judge Mr Justice Eady deemed that since the video had been so widely distributed, published on so many websites and viewed by so many people, there would be little worth in granting Mosley his desired injunction. He reasoned: “Although this material is intrusive and demeaning, and despite the fact that there is no legitimate public interest in its further publication, the granting of an order against this respondent at the present juncture would merely be a futile gesture.”
Now, however, Mosley is aiming to put a stop to the footage being published on French websites or its stills being used in the country's newspapers. France is the home of the
FIA, with the association's headquarters based in Paris.
An FIA hearing on 3 June will see a vote of confidence held on Mosley's future, whilst his legal action for ‘unlimited damages' against News Group Newspapers is due to begin the following month.
