The former hedge fund manager Crispin Odey has dropped his £79m libel case against the Financial Times. The move comes almost two years after he filed the claim and three years after the FT and Tortoise Media jointly published accusations that he sexually assaulted multiple women. Continue reading
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The Easter term will begin on Tuesday 14 April 2026 and will end on Friday 22 May 2026. 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
Twenty years later, and under a new prime minister, Labour now appears to want to make good on Blair’s promise to ‘change the rules’ as far as human rights are concerned, and to do so for much the same reasons and in much the same way. Continue reading
Every time that threats are made to pull the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), those opposed to such a drastic move remind us that Britain was its first signatory and that Winston Churchill was a strong supporter of the project. 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
Taylor Little became so badly addicted to her smartphone that she felt she had lost many of her teenage years. “I was literally trapped by addiction at age 12 and lost my teenage years because of it,” she said. Her addiction was to social media, which led to suicide attempts and prolonged depression. Continue reading
On March 17, 2026, the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) dismissed an appeal by David Babbs, lead consultant for Clean Up the Internet, who had sought records of Ofcom’s meetings with Meta, X/Twitter, Google/YouTube, and ByteDance/TikTok about the Illegal Content Codes of Practice under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA)(Babbs v Information Commissioner [2026] UKFTT 389 (GRC)). Continue reading
The suicide on 7 February 2026 of Princess Dickson, a social influencer’s sixteen year old daughter who was subject to “years of online abuse and bullying on Tattle Life” brought into renewed focus the responsibilities of online forums to ensure that the creation and dissemination of information about identifiable individuals, especially by “anonymous strangers”, is lawful. Continue reading
The Hilary Legal Term ends on Wednesday 1 April 2026. The short Easter term will begin on Tuesday 14 April 2026 and will end on Friday 22 May 2026. There will be no Round Up next week but normal service will resume on Monday 13 April 2026. Continue reading
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