Inforrm reported on a large number of defamation cases from around the world in 2019. Following my widely read posts on 2017 and 2018 defamation cases, this is my personal selection of the most legally and factually interesting cases from England, Australia and the United States from the past year. Read the rest of this entry »
Top 10 Defamation Cases of 2019: a selection – Suneet Sharma
31 12 2019Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: 2019, Round Up, Suneet Sharma
Categories : Libel
What Boris Johnson’s election win means for British broadcasting – Kerry Traynor
30 12 2019
No sooner had the ballots closed than Boris Johnson’s new government was advancing and accelerating its attack on public service broadcasting, threatening to decriminalise nonpayment of the licence fee, boycott the BBC’s flagship Today programme and review the remit of Channel 4. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Kevin Traynor, The Conversation
Categories : Broadcasting, Journalism
Case Law, Australia: Wagner v Nine Network Australia PL, 60 Minutes indefensible defamation: $4 more million for the Wagner family – Justin Castelan
29 12 2019
Denis, John, Neill and Joe Wagner operated a quarry in Grantham in Queensland. In January 2011, there was a flood that devastated the town and killed 12 people. A Commission of Inquiry made findings that the disaster was a natural event and no human action caused it or could have prevented it – not much of a story, so the media persisted. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Damages, Defamation Watch, Justin Castelan
Categories : Australia, Libel
Case Law: Triplark Ltd v Northwood Hall, Trial of preliminary issues on meaning and opinion – James Downes
27 12 2019
On 19 December 2019, Warby J gave Judgment in the case of Triplark Limited v Northwood Hall (Freehold) Limited (2) Philip Whale (3) David Wismayer [2019] EWHC 3494 (QB). He found that the words complained of made a number of factual allegations defamatory of the Claimant. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fact or Opinion, James Downes, Meaning, Preliminary Issue
Categories : Caselaw, Libel
Election coverage: thanks to Brexit, Labour had a media mountain to climb – David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring
24 12 2019
You don’t have to deny the growing political significance of social media to accept that the mainstream media continue to play a vital role in informing and priming public opinion during elections. Moreover, both worlds are deeply connected. Fewer people are buying newspapers but plenty are accessing the same content online. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: David Deacon, David Smith and Dominic Wring, General Election, Newspapers
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism
Case Law, Strasbourg: Tagiyev and Huseynov v. Azerbaijan, Journalist and editor’s conviction for incitement to religious hatred violated Article 10 – Ronan Ó Fathaigh and Dirk Voorhoof
23 12 2019
In Tagiyev and Huseynov v. Azerbaijan, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously held that the conviction and imprisonment of Azerbaijani journalist Rafig Nazir oglu Tagiyev, and editor Samir Sadagat oglu Huseynov, for incitement to religious hatred, violated their right to freedom of expression under Article 10 ECHR. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Ronan Ó Fathaigh and Dirk Voorhoof, Strasbourg Observers
Categories : Freedom of expression, Human Rights
Inforrm is taking a winter break
21 12 2019
Now that the legal term has ended, Inforrm is taking a winter break for a few weeks to allow the editorial team to relax. We will have a some occasional posts over the next fortnight but the full normal service will not be resumed until 13 January 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ireland: Damages for Data Protection Breaches 2, Why Murphy v Callinan is wrong – Eoin O’Dell
20 12 2019
In my previous post in this series, I argued (yet again) that Collins v FBD Insurance plc [2013] IEHC 137 (14 March 2013) was wrongly decided. It precludes a claim for damages for distress for breach of data protection rights, pursuant to section 7 of the Data Protection Act, 1988 (also here) [hereafter: section 7 DPA88]. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Cearta.ie; Eoin O'Dell, Damages
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Ireland
Ireland: Damages for Data Protection Breaches, 1: Why Collins v FBD Insurance is wrong (again) – Eoin O’Dell
19 12 2019
A story in the newspapers this morning has made me think once again about some of the weaknesses in Irish law relating to damages for data protection infringements. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Cearta.ie, Damages, Eoin O'Dell
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Ireland
Facebook to reopen CasaPound Italy’s page, Victory for freedom of speech? – Nataly Tedone
18 12 2019
On 12 December 2019 a civil court in Rome ruled in favour of CasaPound Italy (CPI) against Facebook’s decision to close the far-right party’s profile in September and ordered the social network to reopen it with immediate effect and pay the group €800 for each day the account has been closed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Hate Speech, Italy, Nataly Tedone
Categories : Freedom of expression
