The Investigatory Powers Bill (IPB) has its second reading in the House of Commons today. Although there is much high level resistance to the Bill, relatively little of it has focussed on the impact on the media. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: March 2016 (Page 3 of 4)
On 18 December 2015, Sir Michael Tugendhat, sitting as a Judge of the High Court, granted injunctions restraining the Defendants, Independent Print Limited and Evening Standard Limited, from using information that was subject to legal professional privilege (“LPP”) after a private hearing (Lachaux v Independent Print Limited). Continue reading
The controversial Independent Press Standards Organisation (“IPSO”) has become involved in a row between the Sun and Buckingham Palace over (an implausible) front page claim that the “Queen backs Brexit“. Buckingham Palace has written to IPSO complaining of a violation of clause 1 of the Editors’ Code. Continue reading
According to the tables published with most recent Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly Bulletin [xls] there were three applications for privacy injunctions in 2015, with two being granted and one refused. These official statistics may, however, underestimate the number of injunction applications. Continue reading
EU General Data Protection Regulation Article 8: Has Anyone Consulted the Kids? – Joseph Savirimuthu
‘Europe Could Kick Majority of Teens Off Social Media, and That Would Be Tragic‘. This is just one of many headlines that struck a chord when agreement was reached on theGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The headline refers to a provision inserted in the GDPR, which, in one swift move on 15 December 2015, turned the clock back to the days when decisions about children were firmly placed in the hands of adults. Continue reading
Outside the US, the prospect of Donald Trump being elected president is typically met with a mixture of amusement and alarm. After all, how can a billionaire reality TV star become the most powerful leader in the world when he proposes building a giant wall to prevent Mexican immigrants coming to the US and banning all Muslims from entering the country? Continue reading
Labelled “EXCLUSIVE: BOMBSHELL CLAIM OVER EUROPE VOTE” the Sun in letters more than 6cm high exclaims: “QUEEN BACKS BREXIT”. This startling revelation is then followed by the Sun sub-heading “EU going in wrong direction, she says”. The Sun is however guilty of a grotesque deception not only of its own readers but of millions who have not bought the paper or visited its website. Continue reading
Starting this week, Google will implement “right to be forgotten” requests on all Google search engines (including Google.com) accessed from the country of the person making the request. This change will be implemented retrospectively to all delisting carried out under the Google Spain ruling. Continue reading
Long-running defamation action brought by a former Anglican priest (now Catholic) over sexual misconduct allegations ends in victory for the publishers … The defences of truth and contextual truth are established for five articles in a lengthy judgment redolent with graphic sexual detail. Continue reading
The irrefutable evidence that IPSO is and was always intended to be the same kind of sham regulators as its three un-illustrious predecessors emerges clearly from how it administers its primary remedy. If IPSO had any intention of actually uncovering any wrongdoing on the part of the press it would not have instigated a 28 day period in which the press can cover up its wrongdoing. If it had any intention of deterring the press from breaching even its self-written code of practice then it would permit it to publish corrections and apologies which are a fraction the size of the offending article. Continue reading
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