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
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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
Though it has many legitimate uses, the dark side of deepfake technology has once again been highlighted by Labour MP Jess Asato’s current claim against Elon Musk’s xAI for its Grok feature which produced fake sexualised images of her. Continue reading
In his article on the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Vince v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2026] EWCA Civ 899, Sean Sutherland warns, forebodingly, that the “striking decision risks undercutting the law of defamation, which has grown incrementally to balance the interests of freedom of expression and of reputation” and adding “uncertainty into the law.” 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
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