The judge presiding over
Max Mosley's High Court case against the
News of the World has ruled in favour of the
FIA president, but has stated that the 68-year-old has to accept some responsibility for what happened.
Mr Justice Eady ruled against the British tabloid following the case, which was brought by Mosley following the 'papers article on 30 March this year which accused him of being involved in a 'Nazi-style sex orgy' with five prostitutes in a Chelsea apartment.
Mosley denied from the outset that there were any Nazi connotations involved in the incident, with the
News of the World's case collapsing when the prostitute who had sold her story failed to appear in court.
The other four women involved gave evidence for Mosley during the case denying the Nazi claims and while Mr Justice Eady ruled that his exploits had been 'unconventional', he ruled that there was no evidence to back up the
New of the World's claims and that there had been no justification for the invasion of privacy that had occurred.
"I decided that the Claimant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to sexual activities (albeit unconventional) carried on between consenting adults on private property," the Judge's ruling read. "I found that there was no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes. Nor was it in fact. I see no genuine basis at all for the suggestion that the participants mocked the victims of the Holocaust.
