The BBC and the Guardian are being sued for breach of confidence for their part in the ‘Paradise Papers’ affair in which some 6.8 million documents were stolen (but not by the defendants) from Appleby Global Group LLC, a law firm operating outside the UK. Continue reading
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Something incredible is happening in modern politics. The shackles of propriety, diplomacy, and discretion have been released. Politicians are speaking their minds. This has not resulted, as so many commentators tell us it has, in statesmen ‘telling it like it is’. Instead, political debate is awash with vacuous, bewildering, abrasive guff. Continue reading
This post follows Paul Wragg’s piece on this blog discussing the recent Supreme Court decision determining that the applicant had no right to anonymity after being named in open court by a witness in a high profile criminal case in Oxford. Continue reading
The long-awaited judgment in Khuja (formerly known as PNM) v Times Newspapers Limited is the right decision. But it was not unanimously decided. It is on the dissenting judgments of Lords Kerr and Wilson that this post focuses. Continue reading
Anyone interested in journalism who has been reading the UK’s national press over the past week or two could be forgiven for thinking press freedom is in serious jeopardy. It’s one of those rare occasions when Fleet Street seems to speak as one. Continue reading
Press regulation is changing. On 29 October 2016, IMPRESS was officially recognised as the UK’s first ‘Leveson-compliant’ regulator. This is a momentous occasion. But recognition has been met with uniform hostility from the mainstream press. The Daily Mail was not alone in decrying the event as ‘an end to 300 years of press freedom’. Continue reading
September marks three anniversaries: it is fifteen years since the 9/11 attacks, it is one year since the so-called ‘prevent’ duty became law, and it is seventy-two years since the University of Chicago Press published The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich August Hayek (The Collected Works of FA Hayek, vol 2, Bruce Caldwell, ed (University of Chicago Press, 2007)). Continue reading
The British press has made much of the injunction granted by the Court of Appeal in PJS v News Group Newspapers. This overturned the first instance decision that a story (to be published by The Sun on Sunday) about a well-known entertainer’s spouse engaging in extra-marital sexual activity was a matter of public interest (outweighing the couple’s claim to privacy). Continue reading
The decision in Barbulescu v Romania, in the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”), has attracted much press interest. It has been widely reported as granting employers a right to snoop on their employee’s online life. Let us ignore the actual facts for a moment (as most newspapers have done). Continue reading
Imagine, set before us, the judicial toolkit in misuse of private information (MOPI) claims, as if it had physical properties. We would see a fine set of golden scales, with one plate marked ‘privacy’ and the other marked ‘public interest’. Continue reading
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