This article very much flows from the article written by Chandni Rani on the Online Safety Bill, posted on 3 March and is an attempt to provide a view from the parenting front line. Interestingly my own experience very much mirrors the view of Leslie Haddon in his response of 12 March namely that parents are, as I am, trying to engage, and it would seem from the research they are achieving results. Continue reading
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Month: March 2014 (Page 5 of 8)
Day 68, Part 2: Andy Coulson was “bullying” and “menacing” while editing the News of the World, former royal reporter Clive Goodman told the hacking trial yesterday. Continue reading
On 12 March 2014, the Supreme Court gave judgment in the case of R (on the application of BSkyB) v Commissioner of Police ([2014] UKSC 17). This was an appeal from a ruling by the Administrative Court that it was procedurally unfair, and therefore unlawful, for BSkyB to have had a disclosure order made against it without full access to the evidence on which the police’s case was based and the opportunity to comment on or challenge that evidence. Continue reading
Day 68, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks’s 70-year-old mother took the witness stand at the Old Bailey today to give evidence for her daughter.
Called by Mrs Brooks’s legal team, Deborah Weir said that her daughter’s PA Cheryl Carter had not arrived with any boxes when she visited the Brooks’s home in the Cotswolds at the height of the phone hacking scandal. Continue reading
What a tragedy it is that it requires another suicide to regenerate widespread interest in cyberbullying, the phenomenon that has become the scourge of the internet age. Charlotte Dawson, the New Zealand–Australian television personality, recently took her own life following a lengthy battle against anonymous Twitter trolls, which has precipitated calls for tougher anti-cyberbullying legislation in Australia (see and sign here). Continue reading
Day 67: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson privately offered to help Rebekah Brooks prepare for a grilling by MPs at the height of the phone hacking scandal, the Old Bailey heard today. Continue reading
The Press Complaints Commission (“PCC”) rarely makes adjudications on complaints. Only seven have been published in 2014. Bearing in mind the fact that the PCC staff and procedures seem likely to be transferred wholesale to the successor body, IPSO, it is worth scrutinising adjudications with some care. Continue reading
LSE’s Leslie Haddon responds to a 3 March post by Chandni Rani that argued the proposed Online Safety Bill currently in committee in the UK Parliament would be a “big step forward” in protecting children online. He shares recent findings from research into parent-child communication about online content. Continue reading
Day 66, Part 2: Journalist and former chat show host Piers Morgan may have mentioned phone hacking in 2004, two years before detectives arrested two News of the World figures for intercepting the voicemails of the Royal Household, the Old Bailey heard today. Continue reading
Day 66, Part 1: Rebekah Brooks agreed today she was “extremely interested” in Milly Dowler’s disappearance – but denied she knew the News of the World had hacked her phone. Continue reading
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