In the case of Pinto Pinheiro Marques v. Portugal (Judgment of 22 January 2015, only in French) the First Section of the Court of Human Rights held that libel conviction of the applicant for damaging the reputation of a municipal council was a violation of Article 10. Continue reading
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Month: January 2015 (Page 2 of 6)
Does privacy still matter to us, and if so, do we have the right legal tools to protect it? This is the question that Timothy Pitt-Payne QC, information law specialist and barrister at 11KBW, will be addressing at the launch event for the Centre for Law and Information Policy at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Tuesday 24 February 2015. Continue reading
A former Sandhurst instructor was paid £5,000 by News International for a picture of the heir to the throne in a green bikini a jury was told yesterday. However, despite the purchase of the bikini picture being authorised by then Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, the newspaper never published the photograph and instead used a mock-up featuring an actor. Continue reading
On 15 January 2015 Mr Justice Mitting gave judgment in only the second English data protection case against Google after the decision in Google Spain. In Mosley v. Google ([2015] EWHC 59 (QB)), the Court dismissed an application brought by Google to strike out a claim brought by Mr Mosley under sections 10, 13 and 14 of the Data Protection Act 1998, holding at [55] that it was “a viable claim which raises questions of general public interest, which ought to proceed to trial”. Continue reading
The jury at The Sun Six trial at Kingston Crown Court was today discharged after failing to reach verdicts on most of the 14 counts. Continue reading
On 9 February 2015, the East African Court of Justice will start hearing a case challenging the legality of Burundi’s Press Law. The case has been brought by the Burundi Journalists’ Union, with the support of the Media Legal Defence Initiative. Continue reading
A senior military officer told a jury today that he had found his personal reasons for leaving the army being revealed “intensely stressful”.
Colonel Robert Seddon, the former Army Principal Ammunition Technical Officer responsible for dealing with dealing improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, told the court that one of the reasons he left the army was the death of Captain Dan Reid. Continue reading
A former prison support worker has pleaded guilty to misconduct over a payment he received from News International for information about a jailed child murderer. Continue reading
The former senior Army bomb disposal officer with the Royal Logistic Corps was shocked to be told the news of his resignation was to appear in The Sun, a jury was told yesterday. Colonel Robert Seddon was warned by another officer that his decision to resign his post was to appear on the front page of the tabloid who had not contacted him before the piece was published. Continue reading
On 5 December 2014, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the “Court”) delivered its ground breaking judgment on freedom of expression in Lohé Issa Konaté v Burkina Faso (Application No 004/2013 [pdf] (available only in French). It is ground breaking in two distinct respects. Continue reading
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