On 29 January 2024 Mrs Justice Collins Rice handed down judgment in Blake & Fox [2024] EWHC 146 (KB). The Court found in favour of the Claimants, Simon Blake and Colin Seymour, and dismissed Mr Fox’s counterclaim. Continue reading
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Month: January 2024 (Page 1 of 2)
The UK Government has taken steps to investigate The Telegraph Media Group’s proposed purchase by Redbird IMI, an Abu Dhabi-backed group. The Culture Secretary, Lucy Frazer, announced that a second inquiry would begin after Redbird IMI changed the structure of its bid without warning. 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
Headlines about the threats of artificial intelligence (AI) tend to be full of killer robots, or fears that when they’re not on killing sprees, these same robots will be hoovering up human jobs. Continue reading
Inforrm covered a wide range of data protection and privacy cases in 2022. Following my posts in 
On 1 December 2023, Jay J handed down judgment in Dyson v MGN Ltd [2023] EWHC 3092 (KB). Inventor and entrepreneur Sir James Dyson (the “Claimant”) sued MGN Limited, owner of the Daily Mirror newspaper, (the “Defendant”). Continue reading
Prince Harry has dropped his libel case against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online. The claim had related to a February 2022 article headlined “Revealed: How Harry tried to keep his legal fight over bodyguards secret.” Continue reading
In November 2023, Ofcom, as new online safety regulator, published the first of four major consultations under the Online Safety Act (“OSA”), which sets out its proposals for how “user-to-user” (“U2U”) services (essentially any online website or app that allows users to interact with each other) and online search services (i.e. Google, Bing and similar) should approach their illegal content duties under the new legislation. Continue reading
On 8 January 2024, the High Court of Northern Ireland handed down judgment in the case of Kelly v O’Doherty [2024] NIMaster 1 [pdf]. The Master struck out a libel claim brought by former IRA member, Gerry Kelly holding that the claim was “scandalous, frivolous and vexatious.” Continue reading
The High Court in Belfast has struck out the libel claim brought by former IRA member, Gerry Kelly, against writer Malachi O’Doherty in relation to two 2019 interviews in which he alleged that the claimant had shot a police officer in the head during the 1983 Maze prison escape. Continue reading
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