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After Super-injunction spring we seem to have entered a quiet summer. A small trickle of uncontentious privacy injunctions has not troubled the legal correspondents of the tabloid press. In libel, the jury trials disappear, one after the other. This week there are two “judge alone” trials – in libel and privacy – which are mentioned below. Continue reading
Following on from an Index on Censorship debate on privacy, free speech and a feral press at LSE, Andrew Scott reviews events of the ‘Privacy Spring’ and finds that while we do not need a new privacy law, some refinements to the Human Rights Act might be able to address the perceived breakdown in the legal regime of privacy protection. Continue reading
There were two hearings in the phone interception litigation this week before the assigned judge, Mr Justice Vos. At the first, on Monday 27 June 2011, he approved an order requiring the Metropolitan Police to give extensive disclosure of documents which they seized from private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire by 8 August 2011. The Guardian reported that the documents covered by the judge’s order were mainly limited to billing data, details of contracts, invoices and payments made to the private investigator, and further pages from his notebooks. Continue reading
The Media and Communications Committee of the Law Council of Australia – the peak representative body of the Australian legal profession – has submitted a Response to the draft Defamation Bill Consultation. The submission of the Committee – chaired by barrister Matthew Collins – focuses on the Antipodean experience with reforms similar to those being contemplated for England and Wales that have been tried and, in some cases, discarded. Continue reading
The issue as to whether and to what hearings in in privacy cases should be held in private has been the subject of considerable discussion in the English Courts. The point was considered by the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland in the recent case of Robinson v Sunday Newspapers [2011] NICA 13. The Court took into account concerns about publications on social networking sites when decided to overturn the first instance judge and to order that the hearing take place in private.
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