Judgment Approved by the court for handing down. Ali & Aslam v Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd rationally be justified by reference to the public interest served by publication. But that where there is a rational view by which public interest can justify publication, particularly giving full weight to editorial knowledge and discretion, then the court should be slow to interfere. 84. In our view it is clear that the issues underlying this programme were indeed of real public interest and extended well beyond the specifics of High Court process. Moreover, this part of this programme has to be seen in the context of the whole. Perhaps the strongest point of criticism from the judge on this aspect of the case was that there was no clear exposition of the difference made by the transfer from the County Court to the High Court, so that the writ was executed extremely rapidly and the Claimants had effectively no notice of the arrival of the HCEAs. Logically it would appear to be a necessary corollary of the judgment that such specific points about the legal system should be incorporated in each package of the series of programme concerned. 85. Much of the evidence of Mr Brinkworth was directed to the series overall, and it is clear that the programmes in the series were different: it could hardly be otherwise. As Mr Brinkworth said in paragraph 13 of his statement: “…Choosing which stories are considered is a careful process. In some instances there may be, for example, an issue of mental health which may make a story unsuitable. There may be others where there is no process to observe as the writ may have already been settled or set aside. Each story that is considered always tries to bring to light an aspect of debt, with context, and with the different circumstances of the debtor and creditor being taken into account. As stated above, we always try to put relevant statistics before each story to enable the viewer to see how the story that follows fits into a wider national perspective. The episode in question here, for example, with the various and sometimes heated interactions between Mr Ali, his wife and the landlord illustrated to me that this was a good example of how relations between a landlord and a tenant had broken down; how the landlord had lost faith and trust in the tenant because of his failure to pay the rent; how it had gone through extensive back and forth in the county courts’ and that both Mr Ali as the tenant as well as the landlord had the opportunity to state their case about the facts of the matter.” 86. We accept the factual conclusions of the judge concerning Mr Bohill in their entirety. We also accept his strictures as to how the evidence from and of Mr Bohill, and its impact upon the editorial process, should have been put to Mr Brinkworth. It seems clear that Mr Bohill had an eye to the impact on the “good television” quality of the film and may have encouraged Omar Ahmed accordingly. We also accept the judge’s view as to the absence of true consent on the part of the Claimants. It must have been obvious to them that “the other side of the story” was emerging on the filmed footage and that unless something was said to give the Claimants’ account, that would simply not be available to be broadcast. Hence the participation by the First Claimant in the

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