The Judicial Appointments Commission has, this week, advertised 9 vacancies for High Court Judges – eight Queen’s Bench Division and one Family Division. One of the eight Queen’s Bench vacancies is for a “specialist in defamation“. The closing date is 4 November 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
News: Judicial Appointments Commission seeks specialist defamation judge
17 10 2013Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: Judicial Appointments, Mr Justice Tugendhat
Categories : Legal
Who will sort out the Delfi mess? – Graham Smith
17 10 2013
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section) has found that there was no violation of Article 10 ECHR (freedom of expression) when the Estonian courts held a news website, Delfi AS, liable for defamatory statements by readers using the site’s article comments facility. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Cyberleagle, Graham Smith, Intermediary Liability
Categories : Freedom of expression, Human Rights
Freedom of expression not freedom to harass – Amber Melville-Brown
17 10 2013
Rutland. The smallest English county. Right in the middle of the country. Indeed, Middle England proper. And now, the most recent bastion, apparently, of free speech. In a recent decision reported in The Rutland Times, District Judge Temperley has put Leicester Magistrates Court on the map of free speech … in a case concerning harassment. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Amber Melville-Brown, Harassment, Rutland
Categories : Freedom of expression
