6th Birthday badge redThe Inforrm Blog is six years old today.  Our first post was on 22 January 2010, in the heady days of the great libel reform debate.  We began with 7 page views and one post in the first month.  Now, six years later, we have had a total of nearly 3,400 posts and 3.2 million page views.

The media law issues we have debated have changed over the years.   If 2010 was the year of libel reform, the focus in 2011 moved to privacy,  The first half of 2011 saw the “Super-Injunction spring”.  In 2011 to 2012 there was phone hacking followed by the Leveson Inquiry – which reported in November 2012.

The discussion in 2013 was dominated by the Leveson Report and the debate about its implementation. In 2014 we had the coming into force of the Defamation Act 2013 – which had been the result of the libel reform debate which partly inspired our launch – was first set up – phone hacking and Operation Elveden trials and Google Spain.

In 2015 we had the Mirror Phone Hacking damages trial and appeal, the beginnings of a body of case law on the Defamation Act 2013 and the continuing importance of data protection issues.  And privacy injunctions seem to be making a slow comeback

In 2016 we will seek to continue our coverage of general media and legal issues – case law from Britain, Europe and around the world and other issues such as social media and cyberbullying. All suggestions for topics from our readers are welcomed.

We would like to thank all our readers and contributors over the past 6 years.  The top posts over this period have been from a number of outside authors – taking a range of different views on the issues. Our intention continues to be to serve as a “forum” for debating issues and we would encourage readers to offer contributions on any issue concerning media responsibility, media law and the other topics which we have been writing about. Contact us at inforrmeditorial@gmail.com

The top 20 posts of all time are (in descending order)