Supermodel Naomi Campbell won her appeal in a privacy suit against a British tabloid Daily Mirror that published photographs of her leaving the Narcotic`s anonymous meeting and a story that included details of her drug treatment in February 2001. The model testified that she felt "shocked, angry, betrayed and violated" by the piece. Campbell had sued the Daily Mirror, claiming it had breached her right to confidentiality and invaded her privacy.

The supermodel had asked the Law Lords, Britain`s highest court to reverse a 2002 lower court ruling that the tabloid was justified in publishing the picture, because she had previously lied to the media about her drug-use. The lords also overturned an order requiring her to pay the newspaper's legal costs, estimated at $630,000.

Campbell`s lawyer Keith Schilling said Campbell had never objected to the Daily Mirror's reporting that she had a drug problem and had misled the media about it, but only to its publication of details of her treatment. Lord Hope, one of the Law Lords, said Campbell must have regarded the Mirror article and photographs as "a gross interference with her right to respect for her private life".

Unlike many other European countries, the British parliament has never adopted a privacy law, and judges have largely been wary of indirectly creating one by way of precedent-setting rulings.