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News: El Naschie v MacMillan – science on trial? – Gervase de Wilde

November 23, 2011 / / 10 Comments

Egyptian academic Mohamed El Naschie’s libel claim against prominent scientific journal Nature continues in the High Court in London this week. Nature and their publishers Macmillan are represented by Andrew Caldecott QC and Aidan Eardley of One Brick Court, while El Naschie is a litigant in person.

The Claimant was editor-in-chief and founder of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (‘CSF’), which is a journal “in the interdisciplinary field of Nonlinear Science, and Nonequilibrium and Complex Phenomena” and is published by Elsevier, the dominant force in the publication of scientific journals. Continue reading

Law and Media Round Up – 21 November 2011 [Updated]

November 21, 2011 / / 2 Comments

“The press provides an essential check on all aspects of public life,” were Lord Justice Leveson’s opening words to his Inquiry last Monday. “That is why any failure within the media affects all of us. At the heart of this Inquiry, therefore, may be one simple question: who guards the guardians?”

The overall question may be simple, but the evidence-gathering exercise is certainly not – as previous attempts to unravel the phone hacking scandal have shown. The Inquiry first day also featured a statement from the Counsel to the Inquiry, Robert Jay QC, as reported by us here. Continue reading

Opinion: “Whose data? Our data!!!” – Paul Bernal

November 20, 2011 / / 1 Comment

There’s a slogan echoing around the streets of major cities around the globe at the moment: ‘Whose streets – our streets!’ It’s the mantra of the ‘occupy’ movement, expressing the frustration and injustice – particularly economic injustice – and the sense that all kinds of things that should be ‘ours’ have been taken out of ‘our’ control.

The same could – and should – be said about personal data. The mantra of the occupy movement has a very direct parallel in the world of data, which is why I think we should be saying, loud and proud, ‘Whose data – our data!’ Continue reading

News: Leveson Week 1 – openings by the press, NUJ and victims – Laura Sandwell

November 19, 2011 / / 1 Comment

This was the first week of Leveson proper.  It was the week of opening statements by Counsel to the Inquiry and core participants.  On Monday Robert Jay QC provided an overview of the Inquiry’s purposes and concerns.  On Tuesday, it was the turn of News International.  It stated it could not guarantee the paper had stopped phone hacking after the arrest of Clive Goodman in 2007. Continue reading

Debate report – Could television regulation save the press? – Judith Townend

November 16, 2011 / / 2 Comments

Tuesday night’s panel at Westminster University couldn’t even agree on the virtues of television journalism, let alone whether the PCC was dead in the water. The Media Society event marked the release of Professor Steven Barnett’s new book, ‘The Rise and Fall of Television Journalism‘, in which he argues the press would be strengthened and protected if it learnt from television regulation. Continue reading

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