Prince Harry and Elton John appeared at the London High Court today to witness the latest stage in the case they and others have brought accusing the publisher of the Daily Mail of breaching their privacy, including by hacking their phones. Continue reading
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One of the key moments of the 2011 Leveson Inquiry into press standards came when the Daily Mail’s then-editor, Paul Dacre, took to the witness box to accuse Hugh Grant of pursuing “mendacious smears driven by a hatred of the media”. Continue reading
Liz Truss’ election as the UK’s next Prime Minister marks a significant turnaround after she almost missed out on the run-off altogether, having been behind both Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt for most of the MP voting period. Continue reading
A unilateral Statement in Open Court [pdf] was read today before Mr Justice Nicklin, after Sir James and Lady Deirdre Dyson (“the Claimants”) accepted an offer of amends in relation to false claims made by the Daily Mail that they had behaved oppressively in 2018 towards their former housekeeper by bringing High Court proceedings against her in retaliation for her bringing an unfair dismissal claim against them. Continue reading
A Daily Mail article (since edited), “What they DON’T tell you about COVID“, published 20 November 2020, claimed that official projections of Covid deaths and infection rates have been significantly overstated when compared to actual data – suggesting that lockdown measures were an unnecessary infringement on personal freedoms. Continue reading
The public interest defence advanced by Associated Newspapers Limited (“ANL”) comes in three different flavours, none more satisfying than the previous ones. Continue reading
Glancing at the headlines of the Brexit press on 25 September 2019, one could have been forgiven for expecting a veritable flood of anti-juridicalism in their inside pages. Thus the Express demanded ‘Unlawful? What’s lawful about denying 17.4m Brexit?’; the Mail focussed on Johnson’s reaction with ‘Boris blasts: Who runs Britain’? Continue reading
The defamatory sting in an article which criticised a wealthy businessman who was alleged to have bought, at a discount, homes intended as affordable housing was an expression of opinion which readers would recognise as being distinct from factual allegations in the piece, a High Court judge has held. Continue reading
Among the glowing tributes to Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre – who has announced he will step down in November after 26 years at the helm – I have yet to spot one that mentions this description of his methods from a recent unauthorised history of the newspaper: Continue reading
On Wednesday 9 May 2018, the House of Commons will deal with the Report Stage of Data Protection Bill. [pdf] Two amendments relevant to press regulation have been proposed. Continue reading
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