In the court of appeal's ruling Lord Justice Jackson said both the man, referred to as PJS, and his partner, YMA, disputed that "publication of the story would serve any public interest".
In his ruling, Lord Justice Laws said: "The claimant was not a journalist; the stolen GCHQ intelligence material he was carrying was not 'journalistic material', or if it was, only in the weakest sense".
But in his ruling Lord Justice Jackson said the court should not allow people to be harassed by claims for financial relief which were issued many years after the divorce and had no real prospect of success.
In the 8th century, although Motul de San José was the capital of the Ik polity, the aristocracy of its satellite sites wielded great power and were able to challenge their own position within the political hierarchy of the state while remaining subordinate to the ruling lord of the capital city.
The federation comprised rural cantons as well as city states that had expanded their territories into the countryside by political and military means at the cost of the previously ruling liege lords.
Lord Justice Thorpe, ruling with Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Ryder, said that Mr Lawrence should not be allowed to take his London property out of the mix of assets to be divided.
In December 2002 this decision was overturned at the House of Lords, with five law lords ruling that editor James Steen's publication of Shayler's article was indeed in contempt.
A senior law lord, he chaired the fresh panel which set aside the original law lords' ruling last month because of concerns about possible bias.
Van Colle's devoted parents challenged the law lords' ruling in Strasbourg.
No, his lawyer, Gareth Peirce, launched a challenge in the European Court of Human Rights to the law lords' ruling.
