Kelvin MacKenzie has been suspended as a Sun columnist for an opinion piece in which he referred to Everton footballer Ross Barkley – who has a Nigerian grandfather – as a “gorilla”. MacKenzie also used the column to imply that the only wealthy people in Liverpool – other than footballers – are drug dealers. 
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Month: April 2017 (Page 2 of 4)
In Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP v Reuters Limited and others, [2017] EWHC 644 (QB) Popplewell J granted an application for an interim non-disclosure order preventing the publication or use by a news agency of information contained in documents supplied by Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP (“BHAM”) to 36 potential professional investors. Continue reading
On 11 April 2017 the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed three appeals brought by media organisations challenging the article 10 ECHR compliance of the recovery of additional liabilities (CFA success fees and ATE insurance premiums) from defendants in ‘publication cases.’ ([2017] UKSC 33). Continue reading
The Data Protection Team at the Culture Media and Sport Department is seeking the views of stakeholders on the derogations in the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which will apply in the UK from 25 May 2018. Continue reading
For the most part, social media users in democracies are free to express their opinions online. In Spain, however, that’s not the case. 
Cassandra Vera, a 21-year-old student from the city of Murcia in the south-east of Spain, has been sentenced to a year in prison, and disqualified from public functions for seven years, after making jokes on Twitter that “glorified terrorism”. Continue reading
The Hilary legal term ended on Wednesday 12 April 2017 and the Easter Term does not begin until Tuesday 25 April 2017. The High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court are on “vacation” over this period and Inforrm is taking a short Easter break. We will not be having weekly round ups for the next few weeks. Continue reading
There is an old saying that when a woman is forced to choose between two men, she opts for the third, and so it is with the Supreme Court’s decision in Times Newspapers Ltd v Flood, Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd, and Frost and others v MGN Ltd [2017] UKSC 33. Continue reading
In his piece on Inforrm yesterday, Keith Mathieson begins by describing the use of CFAs in cases against the media as a “scandal”. Evidently the Supreme Court did not agree with him – unanimously. One of the titles for whom he acts has already described judges with whom they disagree as “Enemies of the people”, so I suppose the judges can count themselves lucky not to have been attacked in similar terms. Continue reading
Fake news has become an important focus for news foundations, democratic interest groups and various journalism academics and researchers, following claims that the US presidential elections may have been influenced by anti-Clinton propaganda created by Russia and shared on social networks. 
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The use of CFAs in cases against the media had become a scandal long before this appeal was heard. A mechanism intended to provide access to justice had become a gravy train for claimant lawyers. As claimant lawyers know, the mere threat of a CFA and ATE insurance could be used to bulldoze a media company into submission. Continue reading
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