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News: “Twitter Joke” Case goes to the High Court – Gervase de Wilde
The conviction of Paul Chambers for a joke made on Twitter has inspired satire, celebrity outrage and simple incomprehension. It has also led to two appeals, the second of which begins in Court 74 at...
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Press ‘omerta’: How newspapers’ failure to report the phone hacking scandal...
“[Nick] Davies’s work…has gained no traction at all in the rest of Fleet Street, which operates under a system of omerta so strict that it would secure a nod of approbation from the heads of the big...
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News: Supreme Court grants Glenn Mulcaire permission to appeal against...
The UK Supreme Court has granted private investigator Glenn Mulcaire permission to appeal against the ruling of the Court of Appeal, on 1 February 2012, that he could not claim privilege against...
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News: James Murdoch resigns from News International – Laura Sandwell
In what will be seen by many as another piece of phone hacking fallout, James Murdoch has left the News Corporation English newspaper business and moved to New York. In a statement released today by...
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Practice: Without notice injunction procedure – a further warning for...
Practitioners have, again, been reminded in strong terms of the need for strict compliance with the Civil Procedure Rules when applications are made for “without notice” injunctions. It has again been...
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Law and Media Round Up – 26 March 2012
Media law news this week was dominated by the Tulisa privacy injunction and the long-awaited judgment in Flood v Times Newspapers. Tulisa used a YouTube video, which has now attracted over 3.5 million...
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McNae’s: still essential, 21 editions later – Judith Townend
A journalist with no formal legal training gave his name to the industry’s media law “bible”. Leonard McNae, 1902-1996, wrote the first Essential Law for Journalists for the National Council for the...
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Is Leveson ‘Fit and Proper’ to deal with Media Ownership: the response –...
Following my post a couple of weeks ago, the Leveson Inquiry continues to struggle with its terms of reference and the particular question of whether it should make recommendations on media ownership....
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The Many Mythologies of Press Freedom, Part 2, Media Self-Censorship – Julian...
The Sun is far from alone in attacking other media organisations, but newspapers routinely calling for the censorship of other media is a paradoxical and extremely distasteful sight. It is one which...
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Leveson: police and the media, the proposals – Alex Bailin QC
Whilst the headlines reverberating from the Leveson Report are dominated by the theme of press regulation, tucked away deeper in the Report are some very significant proposals concerning journalistic...
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Hackgate – Project Riverside and The SOCA Report
On 22 June 2013 the Independent published a genuine scoop – ‘The Other Hacking Scandal‘ (here). Tom Harper obtained and reported on the full and unredacted version of the 2008 Serious Organised Crime...
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Anonymous posters and the new Defamation Act: the draft regulations – Graham...
Section 5 of the Defamation Act 2013 provides (or will do when the Act comes into force) a complete defence from a defamation claim for a website operator who can show that it did not post the...
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EC and UK Communication Reviews: where are we going? – Damian Tambini
The current paradigm of electronic communication governance in the UK consists mainly in promoting competition to ensure that consumers can choose the services they prefer. In areas – such as public...
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The Monstering of a 20 year Romany Gypsy cleaner by the press – Mike Doherty
Just as the controversy over the hyper-reporting of the suicide of Robin Williams was beginning to fade, West Mercia Police were called to a house in the village of Pow Green, Herefordshire, where they...
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Practice: Without notice injunction procedure – a further warning for...
Practitioners have, again, been reminded in strong terms of the need for strict compliance with the Civil Procedure Rules when applications are made for “without notice” injunctions. It has again been...
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Law and Media Round Up – 26 March 2012
Media law news this week was dominated by the Tulisa privacy injunction and the long-awaited judgment in Flood v Times Newspapers. Tulisa used a YouTube video, which has now attracted over 3.5 million...
View ArticleClik here to view.
McNae’s: still essential, 21 editions later – Judith Townend
A journalist with no formal legal training gave his name to the industry’s media law “bible”. Leonard McNae, 1902-1996, wrote the first Essential Law for Journalists for the National Council for the...
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Is Leveson ‘Fit and Proper’ to deal with Media Ownership: the response –...
Following my post a couple of weeks ago, the Leveson Inquiry continues to struggle with its terms of reference and the particular question of whether it should make recommendations on media ownership....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Many Mythologies of Press Freedom, Part 2, Media Self-Censorship – Julian...
The Sun is far from alone in attacking other media organisations, but newspapers routinely calling for the censorship of other media is a paradoxical and extremely distasteful sight. It is one which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leveson: police and the media, the proposals – Alex Bailin QC
Whilst the headlines reverberating from the Leveson Report are dominated by the theme of press regulation, tucked away deeper in the Report are some very significant proposals concerning journalistic...
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