This is the fourth part of a response to the government consultation. More will follow. We will welcome your comments, and if you wish to register your views with the government, click here. Continue reading
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This is the third part of a response to the government consultation. More will follow. We will welcome your comments, and if you wish to register your views with the government, click here. Continue reading
This is the first Law and Media Round Up of 2017. The Hilary Legal Term begins on Wednesday 11 January 2017. We will have a Round Up of the media law cases due to be heard this term later in the week. Continue reading
This is the second part of a response to the government consultation. More will follow. We will welcome your comments, and if you wish to register your views with the government, click here. Continue reading
This is the first part of an extended response to the government consultation published by Hacked Off. More parts will follow. If you wish to register your views with the government, click here. Continue reading
This is the Media Reform Coalition’s handy guide to the government’s official consultation on Section 40 and Leveson 2. This submission draws heavily on the draft response to the DCMS Inquiry at which has been heavily promoted in the Sun and Spiked. You may notice some significant differences however.) Continue reading
How will Theresa May’s government decide whether to implement Leveson after the current consultation closes? It appears to be inclined to dilute or abandon the court costs incentives and Leveson Part Two – otherwise why launch the consultation in the first place? Continue reading
The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality is conducting a review of the operation of the Defamation Act 2009 (also here). No doubt the focus of media submissions will be the level of damages, and exhibit A in those submissions will unquestionably be the decision of the Supreme Court in Leech v Independent Newspapers [2014] IESC 79 (19 December 2014). Continue reading
The press has, over the past few weeks, been running a hysterical anti-Leveson campaign based on the absurd “falsehood that press freedom is under threat from IMPRESS” and a “vindictive tycoon”. Although “post truth” journalism is generally fact free, the press has seized on an opinion poll (commissioned by its industry body, the NMA) which, it claims, lends support to its anti-IMPRESS argument. Continue reading
Two phone hacking victims and a news website have launched a judicial review of the Government’s consultation on the Leveson Inquiry and its Implementation [pdf]. The Claim Form, which was issued on 15 December 2016, seeks declaration that the Consultation is unlawful and an order quashing it. The Defendants are the Home Secretary and the Culture Secretary. Continue reading
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