The past month has produced a rich crop of articles and blog posts on media and legal issues which may be of interest to readers of Inforrm. We will deal with these under five headings: Interception and Surveillance, Lachaux and Serious Harm, Articles on the Right to be Forgotten, Articles on Defamation and Free Speech and Articles on Privacy and Data Protection. Continue reading
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The Inforrm short Easter break ends today with a Law and Media Round Up covering the past fortnight and the forthcoming week. The Easter Legal Term starts today and runs until 22 May 2015. We are not aware of any libel or privacy trials listed over this period. Continue reading
The new legal term – Michaelmas – starts today and will end on 19 December 2014. With the invaluable assistance of Mr Benjamin Pell we have prepared a list of the upcoming defamation and privacy judgments, trials and appeals. We would be grateful to readers for information about any other listed or pending cases. We will then update this post. Continue reading
As summer draws to a close, this is the third of our Summary Summer Round Ups (the first was published on 11 August 2014 and the second on 25 August 2014) to draw the attention of readers to interesting news stories, events and cases over the past three weeks.
The phone hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others continued at the Central Criminal Court. The prosecution opening concluded on Monday, Day 6 of the trial. On that day Andrew Edis QC explained the “perverting the course of justice” charges (see Martin Hickman’s Report). Continue reading
The phone hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others began this on Monday 28 October at the Central Criminal Court. The prosecution opening began on Wednesday 30 October and continued through to Friday 1 November. The opening is expected to finish on Monday 4 November. The trial is estimated to last up to 6 months. Continue reading
The phone hacking saga has now moved back to the centre of the news agenda. Next week the first phone hacking trial begins. This has already been dubbed the “trial of the century”. We had a post yesterday about the forthcoming trial. Continue reading
This week we have what, to many readers, may be welcome rest from Leveson and Royal Charters. The biggest legal media story of the week was, slightly unusually, two High Court judgments. Both concerned libel actions brought by foreign residents. Continue reading
Sir Brian Leveson and his recommendations for self-regulation of the press dominated the media law news last week. On Tuesday 8 October 2013, the Secretary of State announced that the Privy Council Committee had rejected the PressBoF charter. She also said the Cross Party Charter would not, as has been expected, be considered by the Privy Council on 9 October 2013 but, rather, on 30 October 2013. Continue reading
This has been the week of “Miliband and the Daily Mail”. The country’s most powerful newspaper took on the leader of the opposition and, by all accounts, lost. A YouGov poll showed that a majority of the public (and its readers) disapproved of the story and thought it should apologise. Continue reading
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