Former FIA president Max Mosley has won another court case against the publication of details of his private life in a UK tabloid newspaper in 2008, winning damages from the NewsCorp company from a French court in Paris.
Mosley has been leading his own personal crusade for the right to privacy since the News of the World published details of a sadomasochistic orgy he enjoyed with five prostitutes.
The latest ruling in his favour saw NewsCorp, the owners of the now-defunct News of the World title, fined 10,000 Euros.
Mosley himself was granted damages and court fees worth 22,000 Euros.
The latest court case follows Mosley originally winning £60,000 in damages following a case heard in the UK courts.
But he also took up the case in France, as the newspaper in question was also distributed in that country.
However, it was not a complete success for Mosley, who had originally sought some 100,000 Euros in damages.
The court ruled that there had been no defamation involved in the story, and also refused to punish the reporter involved in the story, Neville Thurlbeck.
"What we have here is kind of a spill-out breach on the French territory," Mosley's lawyer Philippe Ouakrat told Reuters on Tuesday.
"It was very important for Mr Mosley to obtain this sort of decision."
Mosley's legal campaign to change the law regarding the right to a private life saw him lose a case at the European Court of Human Rights earlier this year.
However, in June this year, Mosley confirmed that he was planning to take his case to the 'upper court' of human rights in Strasbourg.
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