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Month: August 2010 (Page 2 of 2)
Australian academic, Jason Bosland has written an article entitled “Republication of Defamation under the Doctrine of Reportage – The Evolution of Common Law Qualified Privilege in England and Wales” (available on SSRN and forthcoming in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies). Continue reading
Hugh Small
In a Law and Media Round Up a couple of weeks ago we mentioned libel law reform proposals being considered in Jamaica. The common law of libel in Jamaica is the same as that in England and Wales and it is of considerable interest to see how they have approached these issues. The Media Association of Jamaica has kindly provided us with copies of the Review of Jamaica’s Defamation Laws by a Committee Chaired by Justice Hugh Small and of the the Submission to Joint Select Committee by the Media Association and the Press Association. Continue reading
The disclosure on the Wikileaks website and in the Guardian and the New York Times of 90,00 Afghan war logs gives rise to a number of First Amendment issues. Would free speech case law provide protection for the leaker(s) of the documents and those that publish them? There are obvious parallels with the famous “Pentagon Papers” case, New York Times v. U.S., in which the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment barred the Nixon administration from preventing the publication of classified information relating to the Vietnam War by the New York Times and Washington Post. 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.
News
The biggest media law story of the week concerns the release of the Judgment by Mr Justice Bean prohibiting the publication of the new identity of Jon Venables. Following the hearing on Friday 23rd July, there have been numerous media reports of the current threats 
to Venables including a vigilante group on Facebook. The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Guardian have a number of articles about Venables. Blake Morrision also has an opinion piece in the Guardian. We have a post on the Judgment and there is a report on the Press Gazette website. Continue reading
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