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Law - Essay Example By a majority, the Court of Appeal had allowed the receivers appeal against Judge Maddocks decision upholding this claim. In Mainstream Properties Ltd v Young the Court of Appeal had dismissed the claimant property developers appeal against the rejection of its claim against the sixth defendant, De Winter, for interference with the employment contracts between the claimant and two of its employees, Young and Broad, in providing finance for property developments, the opportunities for which Young and Broad had diverted to companies which they had formed without their employers knowledge or agreement. De Winter had relied on assurances from Young and Broad that no conflict of interest with their duties as employees and directors of the claimant was involved. The economic tort claims in Douglas v Hello! Ltd were perhaps the least publicised issue in the protracted litigation over the publication in Hello! Magazine of illicitly taken photographs of the New York wedding of the film stars Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2001, they having granted exclusive rights to publish approved photographs to the OK! Magazine. Among the issues raised the best known is almost certainly Douglas and Zeta-Jones claim that this involved an infringement of their right to privacy. That was not in issue before the House of Lords where OK! Ltd appealed against the lower courts rejection of their economic tort claims against Hello! Ltd. The judgement of the Court of Appeal delivered by Lord Phillips MR focused on the ‘unlawful interference’ tort and contains an extended consideration of the meaning of ‘intention’ in the economic torts. While both Lindsay J at first instance and Lord Phillips made some observations on both types of the economic tort liability for conspiracy, no reference is made to this tort in the speeches in the House of Lords. The greater part