One of the criticisms raised in the recent media coverage of privacy injunctions is that the Courts are allowing rich men to silence women by the obtaining privacy orders which are out of reach of the ordinary person. As the sub-heading of Gill Phillips’ Guardian piece puts it a “Two tier system is being created as rich male stars take advantage of privacy protection“. Continue reading
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Month: May 2011 (Page 5 of 5)
In an interview on the “Today” programme yesterday, 3 May 2011, the Prime Minister David Cameron was asked for his views on privacy law and appeared to suggest that the way forward was through the Press Complaints Commission. His remarks were seized on by the press as an endorsement of press regulation and an expression of concern about judicial activism. 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 main story this week has been “super injunction hysteria” (see our post here). Although most journalists are well aware that
The Prime Minister said last week that he was “uneasy” about the development of a privacy law by judges based on the European Convention when this should be a matter for parliament. In our contribution to the continuing debate on this issue we are re-posting an updated version of this series from last year on the way ahead for privacy law. Part 1 looked at the outline of the new law and Part 2 at the historical background. The final part looks at the options for the future.
Introduction
There are at least four possible “ways forward” for the new law of privacy which has been developed by the courts over the past decade and which has, at least from the point of view of sections of the media, been very controversial. Continue reading
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