Inforrm reaches 500 posts – the popular and the less visible

The Inforrm Blog recently had its first birthday. Yesterday we reached another milestone – 500 posts. We thought that it might be of interest to readers to highlight, once again, our most popular posts – along with some of the early, less visible ones which may be unfamiliar to those who have only recently started reading the blog.These are some of the less visible posts – largely from the first half of 2010 – which we thought might be of interest to new readers:

And this is our updated list of the “Top 20 Inforrm posts of all time” – although our post on Wayne Rooney remains the most popular ever there are some interesting new entrants on the list from the last couple of months – reflecting the large number of important media and law stories from 2011.

Wayne Rooney’s Private Life and the Public Interest [Updated]

“The cases of Vanessa Perroncel and John Terry – a curious legal affair” – Dominic Crossley

Defamation in Scotland – mostly quiet on the northern front?

News: JIH application for permission to appeal “de-anonymisation” – Mark Thomson

Media Responsibility and Chris Jeffries

Opinion: “Supreme Court of Canada Recognizes Limited Right to Access Government Documents” Paul Schabas and Ryder Gilliland

Anonymity, “Take That” and Reporting Privacy Injunctions

Responsible journalism and William Hague

Case Law: JIH v News Group Newspapers, anonymity regained – Edward Craven

Defamation Trials, Summary Determinations and Assessments: 2005-2009

Wikileaks, Public Domain and the Internet

Strasbourg on Privacy and Reputation Part 3: “A balance between reputation and expression?”