The Wellington High Court trial between New Zealand’s two professional accounting bodies has ended in victory – albeit somewhat pyrrhic – for the defendant. In a 61 page judgment in CPA Australia v NZICA [2015] NZHC 1854 Dobson J held that, whilst NZICA representatives had made some indefensible disparaging remarks, CPAA’s inability to establish pecuniary loss meant its claims could not be made out. Continue reading
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Month: September 2015 (Page 4 of 4)
The past month has produced a rich crop of articles and blog posts on media and legal issues which may be of interest to readers of Inforrm. We will deal with these under five headings: Interception and Surveillance, Lachaux and Serious Harm, Articles on the Right to be Forgotten, Articles on Defamation and Free Speech and Articles on Privacy and Data Protection. Continue reading
The UK’s data privacy watchdog has waded into the debate over the enforcement of the right to be forgotten in Europe. The Information Commissioner’s Office issued a notice to Google to remove from its search results newspaper articles that discussed details from older articles that had themselves been subject to a successful right to be forgotten request. Continue reading
A generally wet and a disappointing summer has perhaps been very slightly brightened up for media lawyers by a number of interesting media law decisions and stories since our first Summer Round Up on 3 August 2015. Continue reading
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