The Meeja Law must-read feeds (see @medialawUK & @meejalaw on Twitter) are clogged up with defamation stories this week, following the government’s publication of its draft bill. Here are a selection of those articles, plus a few other topics defining the British media law week. Enjoy.
Defamation
- David Allen Green>> The draft libel reform bill is a good thing
- Inforrm>> “Let the press be free” – Nick Clegg and Defamation Bill nonsense
- Inforrm>> News: Defamation Bill Consultation Launched- few surprises and little radicalism
- Media Guardian>>A minor triumph for libel reform | Siobhain Butterworth
- Index on Censorship>> A “good” bill but government is yet to tackle ISPs and corporations
- Index on Censorship>> At last a blow to oligarchs
- Press Gazette>>Sunday Telegraph sued over extremist claim
- Press Gazette>>Libel reform plan should go further, say campaigners
- Media Guardian>>The libel reforms are a step in the right direction – but do they go far enough? | Joshua Rozenberg
- Media Guardian>> Nick Clegg: We will end the libel farce
- Media Guardian>> Government unveils libel law reforms
Privacy
- Index on Censorship>> The FT on “unfree speech”
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Media Guardian>>When you can’t call Fred Goodwin a banker, whatever next?
- Media Guardian>>Have MPs, and the media, found a way to overcome super-injunctions?
- Index on Censorship>> How the injunction became “super”
- The Independent>> Government refuses to outlaw celebrity gagging orders
Online / social media
- Press Gazette>> Gillingham FC bid to unmask BBC Online commenters
- Press Gazette>> Court hands down first Twitter libel damages order
- Index on Censorship>> US judge rejects appeal of Twitter users in Wikileaks case
- Out-Law.com>>EU privacy law will extend to US social networks, vows Commissioner
- Inforrm>> Opinion: “Tweeters Beware” – Sara Mansoori
- Media Beak>> Politician punished for libellous political Tweeting
- OnlineJournalismBlog>> When is an online comment defamatory? By Rob Minto
Phone hacking
- Inforrm>> News: Phone Hacking – the DPP’s letter to the Guardian
- BBC News>> News of the World obtained hacked e-mails
- Jon Slattery>> Panorama to expose the ‘dark arts’ of journalists
- Press Gazette>> New revelations over journalists’ illegal payments
- Press Gazette>> Marunchak speaks out on email-hacking claims
- Press Gazette>> PCC ‘determined to raise standards’ with hacking review
Misc
- Meeja Law>> The story behind ICorrect
- Meeja Law>> ICorrect: a form of alternative dispute resolution?
- Index on Censorship>> Midsomer blunder
Tips & tools
One for your RSS reader: the excellent and relatively new RPC Privacy Blog; also on Twitter here, @RPCPrivacyLaw.
You can find a full stream of aggregated media law news via @medialawUK on Twitter; and Meeja Law tweets go out via @meejalaw. Contact me via @jtownend or . Relevant journalism and law events here: https://meejalaw.com/events/
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