Law and Media Round Up – 23 April 2012
Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog: It’s a big week coming up at the Leveson Inquiry, with appearances from the media owners: Aidan Barclay, Evgeny Lebedev, James Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch. “Plenty...
View ArticleLaw and Media Round Up – 30 April 2012
Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog: It was the week the newspaper proprietors came to Leveson. Predictably, Murdochs Snr and Jnr dominated the media coverage, but John Ryley (head of news, Sky News)...
View ArticleAnalysis: Privacy cases re-visited, a year on from Super Injunction Spring –...
Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog: A year on from the introduction of the Master of the Rolls’ Practice Guidance, six privacy injunctions have been discharged, but with the claimant’s anonymity...
View ArticleHow should privacy injunctions be reported?
The recommended procedure and law around privacy injunctions “isn’t quite fit for purpose” according to Gideon Benaim, a partner at Michael Simkins LLP (formerly of Schillings), writing in the Guardian...
View ArticleLaw and Media Round Up – 24 September 2012
Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog: The theme of privacy continued to dominate media law discussion last week, as a French court granted an injunction prohibiting further publication of the Duchess...
View ArticleLaw and Media Round Up – 12 November 2012
Since writing this, there have already been new developments in the unfolding crisis at the BBC following its Newsnight programme on child abuse. But this is the media law week that was, rounded up...
View ArticleLeveson and access to justice
Will Leveson’s ‘Arbitration Service’ improve access to justice in civil legal disputes? In Volume IV of his report, Lord Justice Leveson has recommended a new arbitration service for civil legal claims...
View ArticleMedia and Law Review of the Year 2012: Parts 1, 2 and 3
My review of the media and legal news for 2012 is now published on the Inforrm blog in three parts: Part 1: January – April Part 2: May – August Part 3: September – December And if you fancy a...
View ArticleLaw and Media Round Up – 11 February 2013
This week’s Law and Media Round Up – 11 February 2013, at Inforrm’s Blog.
View ArticleThe impact of libel and privacy on UK-based online journalists, bloggers and...
Last November I had the opportunity to attend an event organised by the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, which is facilitating some fascinating research on global internet policy...
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