As one of Australia’s leading defamation silks, Tom Blackburn SC has acted for a range of mass media clients, and the occasional plaintiff … He’s leaving the jurisdiction for the big libel smoke of London, and agreed to share his thoughts on privacy, defamation, section 18C and more
Barrister Tom Blackburn SC reviews the current media and social media landscape and considers it is time for a “personally enforceable tort of privacy” – one which doesn’t discourage investigative journalism.