At the end of the year it is interesting to look back at the 400 odd posts on Inforrm to see which have been the most popular with our readers. These cover a wide range of topics – privacy, libel and general media law issues. This is the list of the twenty most popular Inforrm posts of 2010:
1. Wayne Rooney’s Private Life and the Public Interest
2. Defamation Trials, Summary Determinations and Assessments: 2005-2009
3. Responsible journalism and William Hague
5. “The cases of Vanessa Perroncel and John Terry – a curious legal affair” – Dominic Crossley
6. Wikileaks, Public Domain and the Internet
7. “Reframing Libel Costs” – Razi Mireskandari
8. Case Law: Von Hannover (No.2) to the Strasbourg Grand Chamber
9. Defamation in Scotland – mostly quiet on the northern front?
10. Anonymity, “Take That” and Reporting Privacy Injunctions
11. Case Law: Flood v Times Newspapers, Reynolds defence fails
12. “Reframing Libel – A Practitioner’s Perspective” Part 2 – Hugh Tomlinson QC
13. Blogging the Law in the UK: an introductory guide
14. Judgment: British Chiropractic Association v Singh
15. Lord Lester’s Defamation Bill – an overview
16. Libel Reform, Science and Breast Enlargement
17. US Freedom of Expression and Media Law Roundup 7 July 2010
18. Mosley ECHR Case – the Media Submissions
19. Injunctions and Super-Injunctions: an Introduction
20. Strasbourg on Privacy and Reputation Part 3: “A balance between reputation and expression?”
The consistently interesting UK Human Rights Blog has produced its own list of its most popular posts of 2010 which also contains a number of “media law related” items (at 11, 12 and 14 on their list).
In the top post on Defamation trials, Summary Determinations and Assessments: 2005-2009, Benjamin Pell forgot to mention my several defamation hearings that were listed on the court’s website. I was the Claimant and my Defendants were Associated Newspapers, Bruno Schroder, Suzanne Maltzahn and James Harcus.
One of the judgments was even published on The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee’s website for their Press Standards Inquiry, along with a Memorandum from me summarising the history of the litigation.
Benjamin, how could you have overlooked these?