This is the eighteenteenth instalment in a regular series from Inforrm highlighting press and case reports of new media and information cases from around the world. It is intended to complement our United States: Monthly Round Up posts. Please let us know if there are other cases and jurisdictions which we should be covering. Continue reading
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On 4 October 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered an outage for nearly six hours, stimulating debate over taking a break from the social networking sites. Continue reading
Section 13(1) of the Defamation Act 2013 allows a Court to order that a non-party to cease communicating a defendant’s defamatory statement. Such an order can be made against a website operator, requiring them to remove the statement (section 13(a)), or any person who was not the author, editor or publisher of the defamatory who is distributing, selling or exhibiting material containing the statement (section 13(b)). Such orders are made after a claimant has obtained judgment. Continue reading
United States defamation law has made it famously difficult for claimants to win their cases. However, Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas filed dissents in the case of Berisha v Lawson in July suggesting that a core precedent behind this difficulty is ripe for reconsideration. Continue reading
In tribute to the 20th anniversary of September 11 media outlets have recalled the sense of common purpose that United Americans after the attacks, US News reports. Continue reading
A publisher can be held responsible for defamatory comments readers leave on its Facebook pages, the High Court of Australia ruled today, in a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for social media users throughout Australia. Continue reading
This is the sixteenth instalment in a regular series from Inforrm highlighting press and case reports of new media and information cases from around the world. It is intended to complement our United States: Monthly Round Up posts. Please let us know if there are other cases and jurisdictions which we should be covering. Continue reading
Two years ago, the EU established the European Rule of Law Mechanism as a process of dialogue on rule of law issues between the EU institutions, the Member States, and civil society. 2020 saw the first of the annual reports. Continue reading
Changes to Australian defamation laws that came into effect this month in several states could provide some respite for political satire as a mode of political communication.In recent years, the defamation lawsuit risk for Australian comedians has been real. Continue reading
On 22 July 2021, Mr Justice Nicklin handed down judgment in the Hijazi v Yaxley defamation proceedings [2021] EWHC 2008 (QB) (Yaxley-Lennon is popularly known by his pseudonym, Tommy Robinson). Continue reading
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