The 2024 figures for new claims issued in the Media and Communications List of the King’s Bench Division (“the M&C List”) show a marked decline from 2023. According to data derived from HM Courts and Tribunals E-Filing Service a total of 174 new claims were issued in 2024, an 18% fall from the 213 claims issued in 2023. Continue reading
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Month: December 2024 (Page 1 of 2)
On 1 January 2014 the Defamation Act 2013 (‘the Act’) came into force. At the time, we published an article considering the individual provisions of the Act, and speculating about how the law of defamation had been changed. We first reviewed the practical impact of the Act in 2020, and now do so again, a decade on from the Act first coming into force. Continue reading
This is the last Weekly Round Up of 2024. The Michaelmas term finished on Friday 20 December 2024. The Hilary Term will begin on Monday 13 January 2025. From everyone at Inforrm, I wish you a very Merry Christmas. Continue reading
Six months after the hearing of Steinhoff’s appeal, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last week handed down its ruling compelling Steinhoff’s successor companies to hand over a forensic report Steinhoff commissioned into South Africa’s biggest corporate scandal. Continue reading
This year, 2024 was billed to be the year of the first ‘robust and comprehensive’ UK statutory review of the extent of journalism’s compliance with data protection law and good practice, a formal appraisal which was (and is) meant to become a clear ‘part of the media landscape’ as reformed by the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 in the wake of the general/first part of the Leveson Inquiry. Continue reading
Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to alter his family trust to give his eldest son, Lachlan, control of his media empire, which includes News Corp and Fox News, has been blocked by a Nevada court after a protracted legal battle with his three other eldest children. 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
Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 was intended to incentivise newspapers to join an independent regulator, by protecting regulated publishers from costs while directing costs against unregulated publishers (where the court finds it reasonable and just to do so). In 2018, the previous Government chose not to bring section 40 into force; claiming it would financially ruin publishers. Continue reading
A YouGov Poll, commissioned by the campaigning group Hacked Off, shows continuing strong public support for establishing the second part of the Leveson Inquiry and for the Government to take steps to bring all newspapers into a press regulator which meets the criteria suggested by the Leveson Inquiry. Inforrm had an article with further information here. Continue reading
This blog explores figures from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on its privacy and data protection enforcement in 2023-24 which not only remain concerningly low but are also troublingly inconsistent. Continue reading
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