In May we posted an introductory guide on “Blogging the Media“. An interesting and comprehensive article last week by Alex Aldridge on Legalweek.com about the rise and rise of UK legal blogging has inspired us to look at the topic of legal blogs or “blawgs” in the UK. The US legal site “Justia” has a blog directory containing 2,426 blawgs in 74 sub-categories. Of these, 78 are from the UK but the list is not comprehensive. A number of UK legal blogs are gathered in the “Guardian Legal Network” Continue reading
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Month: October 2010 (Page 2 of 5)
This is a Media Law Update covering the last week prepared by the Legal Information Team at Matrix Chambers, which they have kindly agreed to make available to readers of Inforrm.
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Allen v Bloomsbury Publishing plc & Ors [2010] EWHC 2560 (Ch), Ch D – 14 Oct 2010. Claimant alleging that fourth Harry Potter book reproducing substantial part of book previously written by the claimant. The defendants applying for summary judgment of claim — whether claimant having real prospect of establishing that second defendant author having access to the earlier work when writing fourth book and having copied from it — whether claimant having real prospect of establishing that similarities relied upon amounting to a substantial part of the earlier work — whether application should be granted. Continue reading
In his judgment today in the case of Bernard Gray v UVW ([2010] EWHC 2367 (QB)) Mr Justice Tugendhat has returned to the subject of anonymity in privacy actions. The matter was heard on 15 October 2010, the return date of an injunction granted shortly before midnight on 13 October 2010, by Mr Justice Nicol. It concerned a threatened publication by the defendant of private information relating to the claimant. Mr Justice Nicol granted an anonymity order covering the identity of both the claimant and the defendant and an injunction restraining publication of private information. Continue reading
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A ban on the media reporting text messages sent between two of the July 7 suicide bombers which were displayed on screens in the inquest hearing and the media annex was lifted after representations by the Press Association and other media groups. Continue reading
On 6 October 2010 the US Supreme Court heard oral argument in the high profile free speech case of Snyder v Phelps. The case concerns Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for protesting at military funerals with its “God Hates Fags” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” signs. The claim, by the family of a soldier who died in Iraq, is for intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy by intrusion upon seclusion and conspiracy. It was successful at first instance but failed in the Court of Appeals. It is now possible to listen to audio of the oral argument in the Court. In addition, a transcript of the hearing is available. The ScotUS Blog has its usual comprehensive coverage of this case which can be found here. Continue reading
Earlier this year, we posted a case comment on the decision by the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Petrenco v Moldova. It has recently been announced that on 4 October 2010, the Grand Chamber panel of 5 judges rejected the State’s request for a referral in this case. Continue reading
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n recent weeks we have noted two defamation injunctions obtained against the operator of the “Solicitors from Hell” website, Mr Rick Kordowski (see here and here). More recently a solicitor has obtained summary judgment in defamation against him. However, as far as we are aware, there has to date been no consideration of Mr Kordowski’s position under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the DPA”). 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. Continue reading
In this feature we revisit some older posts which are still of current interest. In this post from May 2010 we consider the question as to whether Article 10 of the European Convention requires the provision of an enforecable right to reply.
The “right of reply” has been under discussion in the freedom of expression context for a long time. Continue reading
Earlier this month we posted about a privacy injunction obtained by the singer Van Morrison against the News of the World. Mr Justice Gillen’s judgment in the case of Lee, Morrison and X v News Group Newspapers ([2010] NIQB 106) has now been made public. It appears that this is the full judgment – although reference is made to a “confidential annexe containing the proposed article along with 12 photographs. The plaintiffs were Gigi Lee, who described herself as a “business lady”, Van Morrison and “X”, Ms Lee’s child. Continue reading
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