In DMK v News Group Newspapers Ltd, ([2016] EWHC 1646 (QB)) Warby J, sitting in the Queen’s Bench Division, has granted two orders designed to prevent the public identification of a defendant in an on-going matter in the Chancery Division. Continue reading
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Issues of world-wide identification and information on the internet in respect of privacy rights, celebrities and English law reignited in January this year. The Sun on Sunday began its attempt to tell readers about PJS’s ‘three-way’ with A and B with the full knowledge of his married partner YMA. Continue reading
When the editor of a national newspaper announces that, having been found guilty by his regulator of misleading his readers, he is perfectly ready to mislead them again in exactly the same way, there can be no doubt that he is defying the authority of the regulator. Continue reading
In the case of Hardie v Herald and Weekly Times ([2016] VSCA 103), the plaintiff, Ms Raelene Hardie, was a part owner and manager of a strip club in rural Victoria called “Club Rawhide”. On 16 May 2013, the Herald Sun ran an article written by Andrew Rule, a journalist, on its front page and on page 4. Continue reading
The College of Policing, which sets professional standards for police officers, is consulting on new Media Relations Guidance designed to provide “a framework to assist those in the police service who engage with the media to do so in an open, accessible and professional way” . Continue reading
The Information Law and Policy Centre at IALS is calling for papers for its annual research workshop on 9 November 2016 in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journal. The first workshop was held in 2015. Continue reading
The PJS v NGN injunction case is just another ugly example of a paid tabloid betrayal/kiss-and- tell story without a shred of genuine public interest while of considerable financial value to both the betrayer and the newspaper. Rarely does a legal case receive so much press attention as when tabloids are outraged by their inability to report on a celebrity threesome they claim is of interest to the public (rather than of legitimate public interest). Continue reading
This week is the Easter Legal Vacation. The Easter Term finished on 27 May 2016 and the last term of the legal year, the Trinity Term, starts on 7 June 2016, running until 29 July 2016. There are, therefore, no non urgent hearings in the High Court, Court of Appeal or Supreme Court this week. Continue reading
In the case of R(Ben-Dor & Ors) v The University of Southampton [2016] EWHC 953 (Admin)) Mrs Justice Whipple dismissed one claim for judicial review, and refused permission to bring a further claim, in respect of decisions made by Southampton University regarding a proposed conference on the legality of the existence of Israel under international law. Continue reading
The new campaign to ‘Reclaim the Internet‘, to ‘take a stand against online abuse’ was launched yesterday – and it could be a really important campaign. The scale and nature of abuse online is appalling – and it is good to see that the campaign does not focus on just one kind of abuse, instead talking about ‘misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia’ and more. Continue reading
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