On 2 November 2020, Nicol J handed down judgment in Depp v News Group Newspapers ([2020] EWHC 2911 (QB)). He held that the allegations against Mr Depp in the newspaper article which labelled him a “wife beater” were substantially true and that his claim for libel therefore failed. Continue reading
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The Michaelmas Term legal term begins on Thursday 1 October 2020 when the Inforrm summer break comes to an end. This post includes significant developments over the past few weeks, since our Weekly Law and Media Round Up. Continue reading
On 12 December 2019 a civil court in Rome ruled in favour of CasaPound Italy (CPI) against Facebook’s decision to close the far-right party’s profile in September and ordered the social network to reopen it with immediate effect and pay the group €800 for each day the account has been closed. Continue reading
The Michaelmas Term legal term begins on Tuesday 1 October 2019 and the (intermittent) Inforrm summer break comes to an end today. This post includes significant developments over the previous few weeks, since our Law and Media Summer Round Up. Continue reading
The legal year in England and Wales ended on 31 July 2019. The High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court are now on vacation until Michaelmas Term begins on 1 October 2019. Our Table of Media Law cases records 57 judgments in media law cases this legal year. Continue reading
The Trinity Term (and hence the legal year) ends on 31 July 2019. The summer legal vacation will last until 1 October 2019 when the Michaelmas Term begins. This will be the last weekly round up until October although we will continue to publish occasional “summer round ups”. Continue reading
If we had the choice to be paid to discuss and share our likes, dislikes, food choices, political views, health issues, desires, fears and anything that makes us unique, would we? Continue reading
On 26 June 2019 Dame Victoria Sharp was sworn in as the new President of the Queen’s Bench Division, replacing Sir Brian Leveson who retired on 23 June 2019. Dame Victoria was appointed to the High Court in 2009 and to the Court of Appeal in 2013. Continue reading
The most important media law event of the week was the judgment of the Supreme Court in Lachaux v Independent Print ([2019] UKSC 27). We had a news piece about the judgment and a case comment from Mathilde Groppo. Continue reading
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