Essex Police have dropped their investigation into Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson over a possible breach of the Public Order Act 1986 regarding a year-old, deleted post on X. Continue reading
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After months of uncertainty from a tight presidential and congressional election in the US, Tuesday’s result begins to set the course for 2025 and beyond. Continue reading
The Michaelmas Term begins tomorrow, 1 October 2024 and ends on Friday 20 December 2024. Continue reading
This round up covers law and media developments during August since our last Law and Media Round Up on 29 July 2024. Our regular weekly round ups will resume on Monday 30 September 2024, the day before the commencement of the Michaelmas Legal Term and of the new legal year. Continue reading
Five “Just Stop Oil” protestors, Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin have been sentenced to five years’ (Hallam) and four years’ (others) imprisonment for their role in planning a protest that brought part of the M25 to a standstill in November 2022. Continue reading
Hacked Off has an article examining what the UK General Election result shows about support for press reform. The Labour, Liberal Democrat, SNP, PC and Green Parties all have a history of supporting the Leveson recommendations and on 4 July 2024, they were handed an overwhelming majority. The LSE Media Policy Blog also has an article explaining what the different parties’ manifestos say about media reform. Continue reading
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from a British prison last week for a remote Pacific island, where he plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a plea deal with the US Justice Department on Tuesday 25 June 2024. The agreement will free Assange and end the years long legal battle over the publication of classified documents. Continue reading
The woman who identified herself as the inspiration behind the character Martha Scott in the Netflix hit drama series Baby Reindeer has filed a $170m lawsuit against the streaming platform. In a lawsuit filed on 6 June 2024 in the US district court for the central district of California, Fiona Harvey accused Netflix of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence and violations of her right of publicity. The Guardian, Forbes, CNN, Variety, Reuters and BBC have more information. Continue reading
On Wednesday 8 May 2024, the Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill [pdf] returned to the House of Commons for its Committee Stage. The agreed amendments to the bill included the removal of the requirement to prove subjective intention. Inforrm has commented on the Bill recently, see here and here. Continue reading
On 25 April 2024, Collins Rice J delivered a decision on damages for the successful claimants in Blake & Anor v Fox [2024] EWHC 956 (KB). Mr Blake and Mr Seymour were awarded £90,000 each to redress the damage to their reputation caused by Mr Fox’s baseless allegation that they were paedophiles. Inforrm has more information here. Continue reading
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