In an earlier post we provided an overview of the recent report of the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport Committee in relation to Privacy libel and Press standards in general terms. In this post we focus on the recommendations made in relation to privacy. Continue reading
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Month: February 2010 (Page 1 of 4)
Although the Simon Singh appeal (see our posts here and here) was the most newsworthy libel case last week, another interesting matter was being dealt with in the Courts. This was the defendant’s summary judgment application in the case of Robert Dee v Telegraph Media Group was heard on 24 and 25 February 2010 by Mrs Justice Sharp. Continue reading
Well before the implementation of the HRA, open justice was recognized as essential to ensure public scrutiny of the operation of the court system as well as provide information to the public (see Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417). Continue reading
In an interesting and potentially important new freedom of expression judgment the Court of Human Rights has held that, when a literary work becomes part of the “European cultural heritage” it will be a violation of Article 10 to ban its publication, however offensive it is to local sensibilities. The case is the subject of a posting on the extremely useful ECHR blog here. Continue reading
The excellent Media Law Journal blog from New Zealand has alerted us to a new report from the New Zealand Law Commission “Invasion of Privacy: Penalties and Remedies: Stage 3 – NZLC R 113 (or here in HTML). The second stage in this lengthy review of the Privacy Law was a paper on “Public Registers – NZLC R 101 (here in HTML). Continue reading
This is the last part of three part post in which Hugh Tomlinson QC considers the future of the law of privacy in the UK. In this Part he looks at the options for the future. Continue reading
In an earlier post we looked at the case of British Chiropractic Association v Singh. This was heard by the Court of Appeal on Tuesday 23 February and judgment was reserved. The BCA Skeleton Argument can be found here (we would be delighted to post Mr Singh’s Skeleton Argument and other case papers if these are available). Continue reading
This is the second part of three part post in which Hugh Tomlinson QC considers the future of the law of privacy. In this Part he looks at the background to the new law of privacy Continue reading
The Irish Republic is a common law jurisdiction with libel laws very similar to those in in England and Wales. Those laws have now been reformed by the Defamation Act 2009 which came into force on 1 January 2010. The reform has a long history, beginning with a 1988 report commissioned by the National Newspapers of Ireland “Press Freedom and Libel” (by Professor Kevin Boyle and Law Lecturer Maria McGonagle). The Government did not introduce a Defamation Bill until 2006. Continue reading
The House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has published its long awaited report on “Press standards, privacy and libel”. This is 167 pages – the pdf is here – but it is more straightforward to browse the HTML version here. Continue reading
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