APPEAL judges referred a landmark case on journalists’ powers to keep information on people to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) today.

Businessman James Stunt brought a claim against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, for misuse of private information, harassment and breach of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Associated Newspapers applied for a stay of proceedings, granted last April, on the grounds that it concerned unpublished material held with a view to future publication.