The Upper Tribunal has handed down judgment in the case of Raed Mahajna v Secretary of State for the Home Department IA/21/21631/2011. I posted about the decision of the First Tier Tribunal late last year. Mr Mahajna – who is a national of Israel (but of Palestinian origin) – had appealed against a deportation order issued by the Home Secretary under section 3(5) of the Immigration Act 1971 on the basis that his presence in the United Kingdom was not conducive to public good. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: May 2012 (Page 5 of 6)
An urgent application was made today to Lord Justice Leveson by James Eadie QC for the Coalition Government to apply for Core Participant Status for the Government and/or individual Ministers who are giving evidence before the Leveson Inquiry. Continue reading
The terms of the Leveson Inquiry are extremely broad. But they do not include holding individual ministers to account. The government asked the inquiry to make recommendations for future policy and behaviour rather than to judge on behaviour of current and past ministers, and the questions that Leveson has chosen to ask are also explicitly directed at future policy. Continue reading
Leading specialists in media law gave an overview of developments in defamation and privacy in England & Wales at last week’s IBC Legal conference, chaired by Andrew Caldecott QC, head of chambers, One Brick Court. A few highlights are reported here. Continue reading
What can we learn from press councils overseas? The lesson that rapidly emerges from an exploration of press regulation across the globe is that it provides not so much a window on a foreign world, as a mirror in which an array of common problems are reflected back at us. The reality is that Press Councils around the world are grappling with profound challenges. The role and status of new media; converging content across print, broadcasting and online platforms; and financial austerity are just some of these testing issues. There is no one solution, no blueprint for reform, but there are interesting and valuable perspectives. Continue reading
The Inforrm blog yesterday reached one million hits – 2 years and 3 months after our launch. Once again, we would like to thank all our readers and the many people who have contributed to the success of the blog over this period and particularly those who have written for us over the past two years. We reached 500,000 hits in June 2011 – after 17 months – and we have had a further 500,000 since. This is Inforrm blog post number 1,170. Continue reading
Four and a half members of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee have put their Conservative colleagues in an awfully tricky position.
Therese Coffey, Louise Mensch, Philip Davies and Damian Collins voted as a block on 10 of the 16 proposed amendments in the CMS Select Committee report into whether Parliament had been by News International. Three of them (TC, LM, and PD) voted as a bloc on 13 of the 16 amendments. They were on the losing side against five Labour members and a Liberal Democrat. Continue reading
Those who saw Rupert Murdoch’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry last week will know that the Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corp is choosy about his reading material – so selective in fact that Lord Justice Leveson felt the need to send the 81-year-old billionaire away with some homework (reading the Mosley judgment). Continue reading
News Corporation has responded to today’s publication of the report of the House of Commons Culture Media and Sport Committee on “News International and Phone Hacking” . This afternoon News Corp issued the following statement on its website from the New York office: Continue reading
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has today released its report on News International and Phone Hacking, which is available here. The report deals with the question as to whether witnesses had misled select committees previously. Continue reading
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