From AP via globeandmail.com:

In a controversial ruling involving Canadian folk singer Loreena McKennitt, a British court of appeal effectively set limits Thursday on what may be written about celebrities and other public figures.

Agreeing with a lower court's decision, Lord Justice Buxton of the Court of Appeal in London said a 2005 book, Travels with Loreena McKennitt: My Life as a Friend, had breached a duty of confidence.

The three-judge appeals panel said portions of the self-published memoir, by former Montrealer Niema Ash, a long-time friend and associate of Ms. McKennitt, were intrusive and insensitive.

Effectively defining the boundaries of such disclosures, they said they were covered by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights,which governs the right to respect for private and family life, and not by Article 10, which enshrines the right to freedom of expression and “to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority ... regardless of frontiers.”