The court decision to award compensation to Max Mosley in his privacy case against the News of the World has been hailed as a victory for public relations.
The FIA president won his case against the Sunday tabloid after it had accused him, in an article, of enactments of Nazi behaviour in his sex life.
Founder of Ian Monk Associates and a former executive of PR Week UK, Ian Monk, said that the ruling had profound implications for the PR industry.
He said the industry might be uneasy that Mosley was now effectively the patron saint of privacy.
But, he added, there was no doubt Justice Eady's latest ruling would bring real relief to the many high-profile figures who found the UK to be an inhospitable and intrusive place in which to live.
He said that this was a huge step in effectively outlawing excessive tricks of tabloid entrapment.
Monk also spoke out against the News of the World for selling millions of copies on the back of prurient stories dressed as morality tales.
In many instances, he argued, the victims owed nothing either to public accountability or criminal gain.
Publicists should welcome the Eady ruling, he concluded, especially the implication that the rules of privacy were now a more powerful weapon against unwarranted media intrusion than the laws of libel.
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