The so-called Independent Press Standards Organisation, IPSO, was one year old this week. It was set up in defiance of the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, of the views of victims, the general public and of Parliament. Continue reading
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Month: September 2015 (Page 3 of 4)
This week a freedom of information request revealed that children as young as 6 have been questioned by the police over “sexting” – the act of exchanging sexually explicit images and messages – “a sext”. Continue reading
Rebekah Brooks is back in charge of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers – but the fall-out from the hacking scandal continues. Brooks’s news editor at the Sun, Chris Pharo, is going on trial later this month accused of making unlawful payments to a police officer. His co-accused is Jamie Pyatt, a former Sun news editor. Continue reading
One of the unsavoury consequences of the enormous increase in the use of social media in recent years has been the surge in online attacks on innocent people, whether it be in the form of libel, harassment or breach of privacy. Countless such attacks are committed on a daily basis, often by individuals hiding behind anonymity who, on the face of it, appear to be unidentifiable. Continue reading
On 26 August 2015, Stephens J sitting in the Queen’s Bench Division in Northern Ireland, handed down judgment in the case of McAuley v Sunday Newspapers Ltd ([2015] NIQB 74). The Judge dismissed an application by the plaintiff for an injunction to prevent two newspapers from “harassing, pestering, annoying or molesting” him by publication of information. He also rejected the plaintiff’s application to continue reporting restriction and anonymization orders. Continue reading
Today is the one year anniversary of IPSO, the Independent Press Standards Organisation. It was set up after the Leveson report found that under the self-regulation system, the press had for years, decades, been ‘marking its own homework’. Continue reading
Hacked Off has published the results of a YouGov opinion poll which showed that two thirds of the general public (66%) say they have little or no confidence in IPSO, the regulator set up by the press in defiance of the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, endorsed by all parties in parliament. Continue reading
There’s value in more than just credit card data, as Avid Life Media (ALM), parent company of the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison, has found out after being raided for millions of their customer’s details. Continue reading
In the case of Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Pedavoli ([2015] NSWCA 237) the NSW Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed an appeal by Fairfax Media over the $350,000 damages awarded to a female schoolteacher it falsely accused of sexually preying on male students. Continue reading
Like most people with even a passing interest in the part played by News Corporation in British politics, I remember exactly what I was doing when scandal broke in 2011 and the sense of a seemingly indestructible media behemoth crumbling into chaos and ruin before our eyes. Now, Rebekah Brooks is to return as chief executive of News UK, publisher of the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times. In 2014 she was cleared of all charges relating to the phone-hacking scandal. Continue reading
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