On 23 July 2020 Master Dagnall gave judgment on the assessment of damages in libel proceedings brought by the leader of the Tunisian opposition party Ennahdha and speaker of the Tunisian parliament Rached Ghannouchi. Continue reading
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The Trinity Legal Term ended on Friday 31 July 2020 and the summer legal vacation will last for 2 calendar months, with the Michaelmas term beginning on Thursday 1 October 2020. Continue reading
The UK is ‘clearly a target for Russia’s disinformation campaigns,’ according to a new report. Protecting our democratic discourse from a hostile state is the role of the intelligence agencies. Integral to that process are the social media platforms, who are private actors. What role should platforms have in a national security context? LSE Visiting Fellow Monica Horten discusses the findings of the Russia report from the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, released on 21 July, which exposes some of the issues. Continue reading
The Judge in Charge of the Media and Communications List, Mr Justice Warby, is one of eight new appointments to the Court of Appeal which were announced on 31 July 2020. He will take up his appointment later in the year.
Australia’s consumer watchdog is suing Google for allegedly misleading millions of people after it started tracking them on non-Google apps and websites in 2016. 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
Australia’s defamation laws, so long criticised to so little avail, are finally changing. New South Wales Attorney-General Mark Speakman trumpeted this week: Continue reading
The Court of Appeal in ZXC v Bloomberg [2020] EWCA Civ 611 recently confirmed that, for the purposes of the misuse of private information tort, a person will generally have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the fact that they “have simply come under suspicion” by the police or other state authority. Continue reading
Case Report, Johnny Depp v News Group Newspapers, Day 16 of the Libel Trial, the Claimant’s Closing.
The trial in the Johnny Depp v News Group Newspapers case concluded on Day 16, Tuesday 28 July 2020 with the Claimant’s closing submissions . Judgment was reserved and is unlikely to be handed down until September or October. Continue reading
This is the seventh instalment in a regular series from Inforrm highlighting press and case reports of new media and information cases from around the world. It is intended to complement our United States: Monthly Round Up posts. Please let us know if there are other cases and jurisdictions which we should be covering. Continue reading
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