The judges ruled in favor of OK! by a 3-2 margin.

However, they ruled that Hello!’s actions hadn’t harmed its rival’s business, meaning the magazines will each have to absorb millions of dollars in legal fees.

A High Court judge ruled in favor of OK! in November 2003, ordering Hello! to pay costs and damages of more than $4 million.

Hello! appealed, arguing that it had run its wedding pictures as a “spoiler” to its rival’s coverage — a common practice in journalism.

In 2005, the Court of Appeal agreed, overturning the costs and damages ruling and ordering OK! to pay back the money it had received.

On Wednesday, the Law Lords — judges who sit in the House of Lords and make up the country’s highest court — reinstated the damages ruling…Read more

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