This week saw the eleventh birthday of the Inforrm blog – which began operation on 22 January 2010. Our first post – “Welcome to Inforrm” – attracted 2 visitors in January 2010 and the site had a total of 7 page views that month. Continue reading
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On 19 and 20 January 2021 Warby J heard the summary judgment application brought by the Duchess of Sussex in her case against Associated Newspapers (“ANL”). It is the Duchess’ case that ANL has “no prospect” of defending the claim, and If successful in her application, she could see the case resolved without a trial. Continue reading
Now that the legal term has ended, Inforrm is taking a winter break for a few weeks. We will have a some occasional posts over the next fortnight but the full normal service will be resumed until 11 January 2021. Continue reading
On 17 December 2020, the UK Supreme Court (Lords Reed, Sales and Burrows) granted the defendant in the case of ZXC v Bloomberg LP permission to appeal the order of the Court of Appeal dated 15 May 2020 ([2020] 3 WLR 838). Continue reading
This is the last full week of the Michaelmas legal term which ends on Monday 21 December 2020. The next legal term, the 2021 Hilary term will begin on 11 January 2021 and our next Law and Media Round up will be published on that day. Continue reading
This new report highlights how, as media consumption shifts onto a range of on-demand, mobile, social and streaming services, the role of content curation processes such as prioritisation, prominence and discoverability becomes pivotal in nudging audiences’ choices and ultimately driving access to and consumption of content. Continue reading
It has been a long time coming, but the UK’s ailing news industry may finally be on the verge of structural change that could help slow, or maybe even reverse, the more than decade-long economic decline of public interest journalism. Continue reading
The Times has paid £30,000 in damages and apologised after suggesting an advocacy organisation was acting as an apologist for a suspected terror attacker. The Times published a story five days after the attack which wrongly claimed Cage had “backed the Reading attack suspect”. Continue reading
On Friday 27 November 2020, at the conclusion of a Case Management Conference in the Mirror Group phone hacking litigation the managing judge, Mr Justice Mann, announced that he would be stepping down from that role after 7 years. Continue reading
It shouldn’t be controversial to say journalists have failed in reporting on Muslims and Islam in the UK. Inaccurate use of terms and frequently negative constructions can make the religion seem strange, dangerous, or simply not British. Continue reading
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