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Matrix Media Update – 16 October 2010

October 16, 2010 / / 1 Comment

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.

Latest Cases

AMM v HXW [2010] EWHC 2457 (QB). QBD – 7 Oct 2010. The claimant, a married TV star, was granted an injunction against his ex-wife to prevent publication of a number of claims about his private life. An anonymity order was granted, with legal proceedings being heard in private. Publicity about the hearings would have defeated the purpose of the action. There was credible and uncontradicted evidence that publication of information by the ex-wife would be highly damaging to the claimant’s private life and to that of others, and damages would not be an adequate remedy.  For Press Gazette news story, see here. Continue reading

Summary judgment in a “Solicitors from Hell” case

October 14, 2010 / / 7 Comments

This post originally appeared on Media Lawyer, the indispensable subscription service from the Press Association covering all aspects of media law.  It is reproduced with permission and thanks.

A solicitor who was defamed by an anonymous posting on the Solicitors from Hell website won summary judgment and libel damages of £17,500 from Rick Kordowski, the man who set up and runs the site. Courts rarely grant summary judgment in defamation cases, doing so only when a defendant has no defence to the action. Continue reading

Grand Chamber Hearing: Von Hannover (No.2) and Springer v Germany

October 14, 2010 / / 2 Comments

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human rights yesterday heard the conjoined applications in Von Hannover v Germany and Springer v Germany. At the two hour hearing a bench of 17 judges heard oral submissions from Professor Walter on behalf of the German government, Dr Börger on behalf of Axel Springer  and Professor Prinz (who appeared in Von Hannover (No.1)) on behalf of the Von Hannover applicants.  Judgment was reserved and is unlikely to be given for at least 3 months.  There is a webcast of the hearing (best viewed using Internet Explorer). Continue reading

Case Law: Saaristo v Finland, Court of Human Rights, Violation of Article 10

October 13, 2010 / / 0 Comments

On 12 October 2010 the Fourth Section of the Court of Human Rights, presided over by English judge Sir Nicholas Bratza, gave judgment in the Article 10 case of Saaristo v Finland. The applicants were a Finnish newspaper company, “Ilta-Sanomat Oy”, based in Helsinki; its editor-in-chief, and a journalist, Satu Sirkku Saaristo, The complaint concerned a conviction for publishing information about the private life of the chief communications officer of Esko Aho, a presidential candidate during the 2000 election campaign (pictured right).  The Court found that there had been a violation of Article 10. Continue reading

Inforrm Blog on the Blogs – some recent posts

October 12, 2010 / / 0 Comments

There is a high level of mutual information exchange between legal blogs.  It is interesting to see how other bloggers pick up our posts and draw interesting conclusions from them.  This train of thought developed as we read a post on the admirable UK Human Rights Blog entitled “Failed Binyam Mohammed privacy case highlights open justice trend“.  In this post the energetic Adam Wagner ties together themes from two recent posts on Inforrm and adds some interesting points. Continue reading

Defamation in New South Wales, Part 2 – “The Libel Capital of the World?”

October 12, 2010 / / 2 Comments

In a recent post we discussed a number of points concerning defamation litigation in New South Wales.   We suggested that the state has a similar volume of libel litigation to the United Kingdom, despite having something like one eighth of the population.  A commentator on the blog post has pointed out that our statistics were seriously misleading.  We said  that, in 2010, the Courts of New South Wales had produced judgments in 36 cases in which defamation was the main claim, as against a figure of 28 judgments for England and Wales. Continue reading

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