The Stig: BBC loses injunction battle
The BBC's legal move to stop publication of an autobiography confirming the identity of Top Gear's mystery driver the Stig was blocked in the high court today.
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Mr Justice Morgan declined to give the BBC a temporary injunction preventing publication of the HarperCollins book on the second day of the hearing, after weighing up legal arguments from both sides in private. Shortly before Morgan's ruling the man identified as the Stig by the Sunday Times last month, former Formula Three driver Ben Collins, left the high court to return home to Bristol where his wife has recently given birth. Asked by the waiting journalists if he was the Stig, the James Bond stunt double said he could not talk about it. Quizzed over whether he had his trademark helmet with him, he replied: "You're trying to tempt me into saying something I shouldn't." Simon Dowson-Collins, the HarperCollins director of legal services, said the Stig was in court today – but added that the publisher would not confirm the driver's identity until the book launch on 16 September. "We were very surprised the BBC took such action to prevent freedom of expression. We maintained all along that the information is already in the public domain," he said. |
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