In the final days of the Labour Government, last year an attempt was made to rush through Parliament a Statutory Instrument to reduce the maximum success fee recoverable in “no win, no fee” cases from 100% to 10% of the lawyers’ charges. Continue reading
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Month: September 2011 (Page 4 of 6)
This was the week of the opening hearing in the Leveson Inquiry with a constant trickle of other new developments in the phone hacking saga. We posted about the Select Committee hearing and about other developments in the course of the week. Some new, and potentially very important victims have been identified over the weekend. Continue reading
On Tuesday 6 September 2011, the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport met again to ask questions to those persons at News International who might be able to shine some light on who knew what about the phone hacking scandal and the settlements of the employment claim of Clive Goodman following his conviction in January 2007. Continue reading
Journalists are being tarnished by the activities of professional privacy invaders. It is time they were renamed and shamed.
There is a confusion at the heart of British debates about privacy. We tend to speak of journalists, of their role, their rights, their responsibilities and very often their lack of restraint and how it should be addressed. Continue reading
In May 2011 at the height of “super-injunction spring” the Government announced the establishment of a Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions. The Chair of Committee is John Whittingdale MP and its membership comprises 13 MPs and 13 Lords. The Committee is now operational and on 9 September 2011 issued a “call for evidence” on a number of issues by 6 October 2011. The Committee is intending to hear oral evidence in sessions commencing later in October 2001. Continue reading
We like to keep readers up to date with the developments in the phone hacking saga although events continue to move very quickly. On Tuesday 7 September 2011 we had the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee taking evidence from former News of the World executives (see our post here).
This year the law of Privacy as it affects the media has been an issue strongly debated in the UK Parliament as well as in the Press. Article 8 has had a great impact on UK law on investigatory powers (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) and on family law (Tchenguiz v Imerman). The European Convention on Human Rights requires French Law to conform to the same standards. But France has apparently achieved this with less controversy. Why the difference? At the Annual Conference of the Franco-British Lawyers’ Society, senior judges, lawyers and academics from the UK and France and the Information Commission, will address these highly topical issues. Continue reading
The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has announced that the ban on broadcasting in courts is to be lifted. Broadcasting will initially be allowed from the Court of Appeal, and the Government will “look to expand” to the Crown Court later. All changes “will be worked out in close consultation with the judiciary“.
Broadcasting in court is currently prohibited by Section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 and Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981. Continue reading
What very different figures Tom Crone and Colin Myler presented in September 2011, compared with the chippy, brisk, pushy individuals who confronted the Commons media select committee in July 2009. And what a different picture they paint. By way of a reminder, back then they began by attempting to have Tom Watson MP removed from the questioning panel on human rights grounds. Continue reading
Guardian News & Media, owner of the Guardian and Observer, recently revised its internal editorial guidelines and beefed up the sections that protect privacy. The new guidelines supplement the provisions of the PCC Code, which provide that Continue reading
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