In the last few weeks there have been significant developments in press regulation that have gone entirely unreported, despite the fact that they involve the most senior figures in the news industry, and despite that fact that they increase the dependence of the industry’s new self-regulatory body, IPSO, on the major publishers. Continue reading
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Month: November 2014 (Page 8 of 8)
The BBC has announced that its scheduled Panorama programme about Mazher Mahmood, “The Fake Sheikh Exposed” has been delayed for legal reasons. There is a post about this on Roy Greenslade’s blog. It has been suggested that the programme might be broadcast next week, 10 November 2014. Continue reading
The Whale certainly created a splash in the last New Zealand election. More accurately, it was investigative journalist Nicky Hager and his book Dirty Politics that created the splash. The Whale – controversial right-wing blogger Cameron Slater and his Whale Oil blog, whose emails were leaked to Mr Hager – copped most of the spray. (I should disclose that I act for Nicky Hager). Continue reading
Stephen Gough, the so-called “Naked Rambler” has lost his Court of Human Rights application under Articles 10 and 8. The Court held that his arrest, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment did not breach his rights to freedom of expression or respect for private life (Gough v United Kingdom, Judgment of 28 October 2014). This is a long judgment in a difficult case.
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