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The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: November 2020 (Page 4 of 4)
Courts considering the meaning of a statement in defamation cases in which the publisher is seeking to use the defence that the publication was on a matter of public interest should adopt a flexible approach, according to the authors of the latest edition of Duncan and Neill on Defamation. Continue reading
On 2 November 2020, London’s High Court handed down its hotly anticipated judgment in the high-profile libel case brought by Hollywood actor Johnny Depp over a newspaper article which labelled him a “wife-beater”. Continue reading
The paperback copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (pictured right) is of great cultural significance. Leafing through the pages one discovers hidden gems: pencil markings, underlinings, marginal annotations. Accompanying the book are sheets of headed stationery from the Old Bailey, containing handwritten notes relating to the novel along with a clumsily hand-stitched fabric bag – apparently made not to protect the book but rather the person carrying it by obscuring its title. Continue reading
Employers monitoring their employees is not a new issue. Indeed, I have written about the surveillance of employees in the workplace, and their right to privacy pursuant to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in a previous Inforrm post in the context of the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments in Bărbulescu v Romania [2016] App. no. 61496/08 and Lopez Ribalda v Spain [2019] ECHR. Continue reading
The much anticipated judgment in Depp v News Group Newspapers ([2020] EWHC 2911 (QB)) was handed down on 2 November 2020. Nicol J held that the allegations against Mr Depp that he was a “wife beater” were substantially true and that his claim for libel therefore failed. Continue reading
On Monday 2 November 2020 Nicol J will hand down judgment in the most high profile media law case of the year, Johnny Depp v News Group Newspapers. The trial was heard on heard on 7 to 10, 13 to 17, 20 to 24, 27 and 28 July 2020 and was fully covered on Inforrm. Continue reading
Google and Facebook have launched a nationwide public relations campaign in response to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission’s draft news media bargaining code. Continue reading
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