This post covers developments since the last weekly Law and Media Round Up on 3 August 2026. The summer legal vacation will run until Thursday 1 October 2026 when the Michaelmas Legal Term will begin. Our next weekly round up will be on 5 October 2026. Continue reading
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Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
Professor Arday is not the first to be viciously hounded by the rabid press. I doubt he will be the last. To end this brutal cycle of tragedy, we need politicians brave enough to overcome their cowardice and implement mandatory, independent press regulation that tackles press malpractice but preserves press freedom. Continue reading
In a judgment handed down today, Mr Justice Nicklin made an order that the claimants in the case of Baroness Lawrence & Ors v Associated Newspapers pay the costs of the action to be assessed on the indemnity basis ([2026] EWHC 2207 (KB)) [pdf]. Continue reading
The sense of public outrage about the late Professor Jason Arday’s treatment by the press is palpable. The government would do well to listen. As Newscord reports, Professor Arday was the subject of 249 articles in 22 days. Continue reading
How much of what you see on social media comes from sources that repeatedly post falsehoods? And if that content quietly vanished from your feed, would you believe anything different months later? Continue reading
Media lawyer and author Jonathan Coad recently complained to IPSO about a Telegraph article entitled “Hacked Off Hugh Grant pushes Andy Burnham to curb free speech”. Continue reading
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
In the early 20th Century, the Sunday Chronicle, a newspaper owned by E. Hulton & Co, published a satirical travel piece about a festival in Dieppe, France. The article referred to an individual named Artemus Jones, an Englishman who it was alleged had come over to the festival in Dieppe and was carrying on an adulterous affair with a French woman. Continue reading
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