The short Easter Legal Term ended on 28 May 2021, and the Trinity Legal Term will begin on 8 June 2021. Continue reading
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Month: May 2021 (Page 1 of 3)
In an effort to reverse the flood of abuse on the platform, Twitter is rolling out a new feature which will show a self-moderation prompt to users who compose replies that the platform’s algorithms recognise to be abusive. Continue reading
Earlier this month, Facebook’s Oversight Board upheld the decision to ban someone from its site. The “someone” in question happened to be Donald Trump, but that has no bearing on this article. I want to examine the debate that rages over the principle of social media sites being able to ban anyone at all from their platforms. Continue reading
The privacy and press regulation campaigner, Max Mosley, died of cancer on Sunday 23 May 2021 at the age of 81. In 2008, after a long and distinguished career in motor sport, Mr Mosley was the subject of an invasive and libellous article in the News of the World. Continue reading
On 20 May 2021 the BBC published a Report by former Master of the Rolls and Supreme Court Justice, Lord Dyson into the circumstances of how BBC reporter Martin Bashir came to interview Princess Diana for the BBC Panorama in November 1995. Continue reading
Sand Van Roy brought proceedings against Associated Newspapers Limited (“ANL”) in 2020 in respect of the publication of a number of articles which published her private information (both actual and purported). Continue reading
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
In its judgment in Amaghlobeli and Others v. Georgia ([2021] ECHR 422) the European Court of human Rights rejected complaints by two journalists and the publishing company for which they worked that their rights to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the Convention were breached when the journalists were fined for having entered the customs control zone of a border post. Continue reading
In the recently released Freedom House Freedom Report, India has been demoted to ‘Partly Free’ from the ‘Free’ category. Civil liberties and free expression have seen a slow but steady breakdown in India over the last few years. A particularly disturbing trend is the silencing of voices through targeted prosecutions of activists, students, academics, protestors, and journalists. Continue reading
Capitalism tends to have all the cake, eat it and then ask even more of it. It generates persistently but in doing so it destroys even more often, and also has an innate propensity to neutralise and co-opt resistance against it. Continue reading
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