The Hilary Legal Term began on Friday 11 January 2019 and ends on Friday, 28 March 2019. This post deals with media law cases listed for this term and cases in which decisions are awaited. Please let us know if there are any other media law cases which should be added to this post. Read the rest of this entry »
Media and Information Law Cases: Hilary Legal Term 2019 Preview
17 01 2019Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Categories : Legal
The legal implications of digital privacy – Florencio Travieso
16 01 2019
A June 2018 decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States established an interesting principle on digital privacy in a case related to a criminal proceeding. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Florencio Travieso, The Conversation
Categories : Internet, Legal, Privacy
Law and Media Round Up – 14 January 2019
14 01 2019
The Hilary Term 2019 began last Friday, 11 January 2019. We welcomed the New Year with a follow up to our most popular post of 2018, this time “Top 10 Defamation Cases of 2018”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Case Law: Ameyaw v PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Employment Tribunal judgment anonymity application fails – Media Lawyer
12 01 2019
In the case of Ameyaw v PriceWaterhouseCoopers ([2019] UKEAT 0244_18_0401) a former senior manager failed in a bid to win anonymity in a published judgment from an Employment Tribunal, and in an application for two decisions to be removed from public records available on the internet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anonymity, EAT
Categories : Legal, Open Justice
Family Courts Anonymisation Guidance: a curtain of secrecy? – FCReportingWatch
20 12 2018
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane recently issued some guidance on the anonymisation of published judgments in family court cases. You can read that guidance here. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anonymisation, FCReportingWatch, The Transparency Project
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Law and Media Round Up – 17 December 2018 [Updated]
17 12 2018
The Michaelmas Legal Term 2018 will end on 21 December 2018 with the Hilary Term 2019 commencing on 11 January 2019. INFORRM will be taking a Christmas break with the first Law and Media Round Up of the New Year being published on 14 January 2019. Read the rest of this entry »
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Case Law: R (Jefferies and ors) v Home Secretary and anor, Judgment leaves claimants ‘hacked off’ – Katie Ayres
16 12 2018
By Judgment handed down on 29 November 2018 (R (on the Application of Jefferies and Others) v (1) Secretary of State for the Home Department (2) Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [2018] EWHC 3239 (Admin)) Lord Justice Davis and Mr Justice Ouseley dismissed the Claimants claims for Judicial Review of the Government’s decision to not embark on ‘Part 2’ of the Leveson Inquiry. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Caselaw, Legal, Leveson Inquiry, Media
