Royal wannabes get royal walloping in court

Australia's High Court has upheld a ruling that a radio station broke the law by airing a hoax call to a hospital which was treating the Duchess of Cambridge for morning sickness. DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian made international headlines in 2012 when a nurse who fell for their prank later killed herself. The High Court overturned a previous decision which cleared 2Day FM. The station could now be fined or see its licence suspended or revoked. 2Day FM said today's decision "means that there is a serious defect in Australian broadcasting law". Of course there is a defect, the defect being that those two losers were even allowed on the air in the first place. It was bad enough they passed themselves off as the Queen and Prince Philip and caused the nurse who answered the call to kill herself, but the real legal problem is that the station broke the law by not obtaining consent to air the call from either of the hospital staff featured, but then again if they had, it would've meant blowing their cover before the call even made it to air.