On 10 June 2021 a unilateral statement in open court was read in the case of Sir Simon Hughes v News Group Newspapers. This recorded that News Group had agreed to pay substantial damages to settle a claim for unlawful information gathering against The Sun. Continue reading
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The 14 June 2021 will mark the two-year anniversary of the introduction of the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) new advertising rule targeting ‘harmful gender stereotypes’ in marketing communications in the UK. What progress has been made since its implementation? Continue reading
On 12 May 2021, two years after the publication of its Online Harms White Paper, the Government published the Online Safety Bill, “a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online”. Continue reading
On 25 May 2021 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its long awaited judgment on bulk interception of personal data and mass surveillance by security and intelligence services in the case of Big Brother Watch and others v. the United Kingdom [2021] ECHR 439. Continue reading
The Royal Courts of Justice annual tables 2020 were published on 3 June 2021. They show that in the last calendar year, 152 defamation claims (libel and slander) were started in the High Court. Continue reading
The Trinity Legal Term will begin on Tuesday 8 June 2021 and will finish on 30 July 2021. It is likely that this term will see a return to “in person” hearings in most media cases with a number of high profile matters due for hearing. Continue reading
In February, Australian media companies pleaded guilty to contempt of court over their reporting of Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on sexual abuse charges. Continue reading
In Coker v Nwkanma [2021] EWHC 1011 (QB), the Claimant sued his former friend over an allegation that he had sexually assaulted a woman – anonymised in the proceedings as ‘X’ – at the Defendant’s home. Continue reading
Should user-generated content (UGC) on social media platforms be free from any regulation and the rule of law, simply because it is user-generated? Continue reading
In the case of Milosavljević v. Serbia ([2021] ECHR 441) the Court of Human Rights, Second Section, dismissed an Article 10 complaint by a journalist who had been subject to an adverse defamation judgment in respect of an article accusing a local public official of trying to rape an underage Romani girl. Continue reading
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