Last month the Ministry of Justice issued the Royal Courts of Justice Tables for 2023. They record that there were 250 issued defamation claims in 2023, no significant change from the MoJ’s 2022 figure of 233 issued claims. Continue reading
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Month: July 2024 (Page 1 of 2)
The legal year ends on Wednesday 31 July 2024, the last day of the Trinity Legal Term. The Michaelmas legal term begins on Tuesday 1 October and ends on Friday 20 December 2024. 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
The Queen’s Bench Division Media and Communications List User Group (MACLUG) Committee met on 22 May 2024. The meeting was chaired by Collins Rice and Steyn JJ as the joint judges in charge of the Media and Communications List. The meeting was attended by Master Davison and by a number of practitioners and civil society representatives. Continue reading
Five “Just Stop Oil” protestors, Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin have been sentenced to five years’ (Hallam) and four years’ (others) imprisonment for their role in planning a protest that brought part of the M25 to a standstill in November 2022. Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court has sent back to lower courts the decision about whether states can block social media companies such as Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, from regulating and controlling what users can post on their platforms. Continue reading
Reform UK were accused of running fake AI-generated candidates in the general election after several candidates were reported to have provided no contact details, photos or biographies. The party stated that all of its 609 candidates were real, albeit some were non-campaigning paper candidates. Continue reading
On 3 July 2024 HHJ Parkes KC handed down judgment on a strike out application in Pacini & Anor v Dow Jones & Co Inc [2024] EWHC 1709 (KB). The case will be of interest to anyone thinking about the complex relationship between defamation, privacy and data protection in English law. 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
On 25 June 2024, after a complex preliminary issues trial, Mr Justice Nicklin handed down judgment in the case of Harcombe and Kendrick v Associated Newspapers [2024] EWHC 1523 (KB), dismissing a public interest defence advanced by the publishers of The Mail on Sunday and its health editor, in a libel claim brought against them by Dr Zoë Harcombe and Dr Malcolm Kendrick. Continue reading
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