Judgment Approved by the court for handing down. Ali & Aslam v Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd 110. We see no basis on which it can properly be said that the judge failed properly to consider the impact on the Claimants’ children. 111. We turn to Ground 1. Here the stark point advanced is that the awards of £10,000 each simply do not represent an adequate response to the scale and nature of the publication. The figures have been set out more than once above: nearly 10 million views over a 20 month period. Mr Tomlinson does not submit that a simple “scale” can be applied to such damages awards, but does submit that the award “represents an award of £277 per Claimant in respect of each broadcast to a quarter of a million viewers”. The judge had accepted that the Claimants sustained real distress from the broadcast and in particular that the Second Claimant had been particularly troubled. The judge should have made a higher award to the Second Claimant to reflect her greater level of upset, but did not do so. 112. The Claimants rely on two or three salient points drawn from the decision in Gulati. Gulati was concerned with phone hacking, and therefore the facts are very different from this case. As Mann J held in that case: “damages in a privacy case should compensate not merely for distress (or some similar emotion) but should also compensate (if appropriate) for the loss of privacy or autonomy as such arising out of the infringement by hacking (or other mechanisms) as such, which could include as some to compensate for damage to dignity or standing so far as that was meaningful in this context and was not already within the distress element”. (Headnote 17) 113. Mann J also observed that: “the relevant caselaw did not bind the court to take either a wrapped-up approach, or a divided-up approach to the award of damages. It demonstrated that the court could, and should, take in appropriate to achieve the objective of compensating the Claimant properly and fairly for the wrong sustained. In some cases a global award would be appropriate to that end; in others a more divided-up approach would be appropriate.” (Headnote 22) 114. Although “as a starting point each article should be treated separately in terms of an award of damages” the risk of double counting had to be avoided and: “the effect of the articles was likely to have been cumulative, so some later distress built on that already caused… the way of dealing with this was to make sure that any particular sums were adjusted appropriately and to make sure that the overall sum appeared to be proportionate and a proper reflection of the overall pattern of wrongdoing.” (Headnote 24, paragraphs 156/7) 115. The Defendant emphasises that the judge correctly directed himself to the principles set down in Gulati and took them into account. No “wrong principle of law” has been

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