Let us try for a moment to see the actions of the Metropolitan Police in relation to apparent leaks of information to the Guardian from the point of view of senior police officers. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: September 2011 (Page 3 of 6)
The International Telecommunications Union (“ITU”) has recently published its 2011 Report “Measuring the Information Society“. This looks at two key indicators for information and communication technology (“ICT”) a development index (IDI) and and a price basket (“IPB”). Continue reading
One of the minor oddities in all the accumulated evidence about phone hacking is a remark made at the Old Bailey on 26 January 2007, when Glenn Mulcaire was sentenced to six months in jail. Almost casually, it seemed, Mr Justice Gross observed that the private investigator had had other collaborators at the News of the World besides the royal editor, Clive Goodman. Continue reading
On 9 April this year News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers announced in the media that it had appointed a former High Court Judge to run a scheme to pay compensation to victims of phone hacking. Press articles confirmed that Sir Charles Gray had agreed to be the independent adjudicator of the scheme. Continue reading
On Tuesday 13 September 2011 a number of applications were heard before Mr Justice Vos in the phone hacking litigation. An additional lead action was added, namely that of Sheila Henry the mother of a victim of the 7/7 bombings. This was reported in the Guardian, and elsewhere. In addition the claimants obtained an order for further generic disclosure from News Group Newspapers. News Group told the Court that a large cache of new documents has been found recently. News Group has been ordered to disclose document by 30 September 2011 if not earlier. Continue reading
Newspapers groups, victims of phone hacking and other forms of privacy intrusion by the press, and the Metropolitan Police Service have been granted core participant status in the Leveson Inquiry.
In his ruling, released today, Lord Justice Leveson explains his decision on the several applications made before him at the Royal Courts of Justice on 6 September 2011. Continue reading
Operation Motorman was the 2003 investigation into the illegal trade in personal information by the British Press. Whereas the phone hacking saga has – so far at least – only impacted on News Group Newspapers, the Motorman investigation reached into almost every part of the newspaper industry. Continue reading
Although anyone is free to publish a newspaper in England, publishers are still subject to a little known and apparently anachronistic “registration” requirement. This arises under the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881 (“the 1881 Act”) which requires newspapers which are published in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to be registered with Companies House. Continue reading
Roy Greenslade makes a number of valid and helpful points in his proposal to come up with a ‘PCC Plus’ (link here). In particular he notes the experience and conscientiousness of the current PCC secretariat (i.e. those who run the organisation on a day-to-day basis).
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This is the second part of a two part post. Part One can be found here.
The suggestion that journalists are ethically driven often provokes sniggering, because many people believe the opposite. Yet journalists spend more of their time confronting and worrying about ethical questions than people in most other walks of life. Continue reading
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