On 16 April 2010 the European Court of Human Rights announced that the case of Caroline von Hannover v Germany (no. 40660/08) had been relinquished to the Grand Chamber of the Court – a panel of 17 judges. It will be heard along with the case of Springer v Germany (No. 39954/08). Princess Caroline von Hannover (the daughter of Prince Rainier III of Monaco), was of the course the successful applicant in the Court’s most famous media privacy case: Von Hannover v Germany ((2004) 40 EHRR 1). This new case gives the Grand Chamber of the Court of Human Rights its first opportunity to consider the developing case law on privacy and the media. Continue reading
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Month: May 2010 (Page 4 of 4)
In a previous post we mentioned that on 1 February 2010 the President of the Court had given various media organisations permission under Rule 44(2) to intervene in Max Mosley’s application to the European Court of Human Rights in which he contends that the United Kingdom has a positive obligation under Article 8 to require the media to give prior notice of publications which may infringe privacy rights. In a subsequent post we discussed the submissions of the media interveners in the case, who variously contended that the United Kingdom was the worst violator of free speech, that the Court of Human Rights had wrongly imported honour and Continue reading
Tomorrow
is “World Press Freedom Day”. The 3 May was proclaimed World Press Freedom Day by the UN General Assembly in 1993 and each year the celebration of the day has a different theme. This year UNESCO’s celebration of this day will highlight the importance of freedom of information as an integral part of freedom of expression and its contribution to democratic governance. The day has its own Facebook page and Twitter feed. There is a short post on the UK Freedom of Information blog. Continue reading
In this regular feature we draw attention to the last week’s law and media news and next week’s upcoming events. If readers have any news or events which they would like to draw attention to please add them by way of comments on this post. We are particularly interested in forthcoming events which readers are interested in publicising.
News
The General Election campaign continues this its last week. Former “Sun” editor David Yelland suggests, in the Guardian that “Nick Clegg’s rise could lock Murdoch and the media elite out of British politics“. The Tabloid Watch blog has a good discussion of the media coverage of immigration: “The great spoken issue”, suggesting that the problem with immigration
“is that it is dominated by the right-wing anti-immigration press who spread lies and misinformation to suit their own agenda”
While the campaign groups Index On Censorship Pen, Sense about Science, continue their campaign to Americanise UK media law, it is interesting to compare media standards and conduct in both countries. Continue reading
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