When the Court of Appeal overturned a judge’s refusal to grant an injunction to a married celebrity about an alleged “threesome”, much of the British press could barely conceal its fury. Continue reading
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News: Supreme Court will give judgment in privacy injunction case of PJS v News Group on 19 May 2016
The UK Supreme Court has announced that it will hand down judgment in the case of PJS v News Group Newspapers Limited at 9.30am on Thursday 19 May 2016. The “hand down bench” for the judgment will be Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale and Lord Mance. Continue reading
The media news this week was dominated by the release of the long awaited White Paper, A BBC for the future: a broadcaster of distinction [pdf] . The BBC will face external regulation for the first time in its history. Continue reading
Want a glimpse of the culture minister’s real agenda for the BBC? Just turn to pages 112-115 of the government’s White Paper and the commissioned questions asked by the polling agency. They are very revealing. Continue reading
The High Court has granted injunctions to US claimants in relation to two closely related applications. The case (Power Places Tours Inc and others v Free Spirit and another) is unusual as one of the injunctions granted was to protect US residents from being harassed online by an individual, notwithstanding that they did not appear to have any special connection to the jurisdiction or to have suffered any detriment within it. Continue reading
The good folk at the Cambridge University Conservative Association must be a little disappointed. Having listened to culture secretary John Whittingdale tell them only last month that the disappearance of the BBC was “a tempting prospect”, they will now have noticed that his white paper on the future of the BBC is planning to do no such thing. Continue reading
Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) provides legal support to journalists under threat. We remain the only organisation globally to focus on providing specialist legal defence to independent media. MLDI does this exclusively and with great results. Continue reading
One-person protests are the only kind of demonstration Russian citizens are permitted to hold without giving prior notice to the authorities. The unanimous judgment in Novikova and others v. Russia stops short of questioning this low threshold, but finds Russia in violation of Article 10 over its excessive zeal in enforcing the notification requirement through arrests and fines. Continue reading
Successive British governments have passed or tried to pass laws granting wide data sharing and surveillance powers, only for them to founder in the European courts due to conflicts with European directives and laws such as the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Continue reading
These are troubling times for those of us interested in the rule of law, that is, the overwhelming majority of society. The right to privacy is, of course, enshrined in law in this country through the Human Rights Act and is, without doubt, one of the most important basic human rights, available to all of us. Much to the annoyance of the tabloid press, there is no caveat which means it does not apply to actors, musicians or sports stars. The protection is universal. Continue reading
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