On 20 April 2021, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Corbyn v Millet [2020] EWHC 1848. The decision upheld Saini J’s findings at the preliminary trial, which concerned words spoken by the then leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn on the Andrew Marr Show in September 2018. Continue reading
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The final element of the Mail on Sunday’s defence in the privacy and copyright case brought against it by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has gone down in flames in the London High Court, further deepening the paper’s humiliation. Continue reading
On 16 February 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) decided ground-breaking cases of minority othering: Behar and Gutman; Budinova and Chaprazov. The twin cases, stemming from collective domestic litigation, concern anti-Semitic/ anti-Roma hate speech. Continue reading
Imagine a bank appointing a confirmed Marxist as its CEO, or an oil company doing likewise with a passionate campaigner against fossil fuels. Sounds crazy? Continue reading
On 26 April 2021, Nicklin J heard the last day of the Hijazi v Yaxley-Lennon trial. The English Defence League founder (aka Tommy Robinson) is being sued by Jamal Hijazi, 17, who was filmed being attacked at his Huddersfield school in October 2018. 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
This weekend, the professional football community in the UK will boycott social media. The “gesture”, initiated by the anti-racism charity, Kick It Out, and others, is a call to “those with power [within social media] … to do more and to act faster … to make their platforms a hostile environment for trolls”. At the time of writing, British rugby and British cricket has announced that they will join the boycott. Continue reading
On 28 and 29 April 2021, the Supreme Court (Lord Reed, Lady Arden, Lords Sales, Leggatt and Burrows) heard the long awaited Google appeal against the Court of Appeal’s 2 October 2019 decision ([2019] EWCA Civ 1599). Continue reading
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has had a significant win against Google. The Federal Court found Google misled some Android users about how to disable personal location tracking. Continue reading
On Wednesday 28 April and Thursday 29 April 2021, the UK Supreme Court will hear Lloyd v Google LLC, a hotly anticipated appeal which could see the rebirth of the CPR 19.6 representative claim vehicle for opt-out data privacy ‘class actions’. Continue reading
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