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- 5RB – media & entertainment law
- BBC College of Journalism – Law
- BBC Freedom of Information
- Blackstone's Statutes Media Law 3e – resources
- British Journal of Photography – campaigns
- Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism
- Channel 4 Producer's Handbook – Media Law
- City Legal Research
- CRITique commercial law blog
- David Banks
- David Price Guide to Media Law
- Delia Venables’ legal resources
- Digital Media Law (US)
- Digital Media Law Project
- Don’t Get Fooled Again
- Drawnalism
- EPUK resources
- George Brock
- Guardian Freedom of Information
- Guardian Legal Network
- Guardian.co.uk – media law
- Heather Brooke’s blog
- HMCS glossary of legal terms
- I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist
- Index on Censorship
- Informationa Rights and Wrongs
- Inforrm blog
- IP Media Law
- Jack of Kent
- Jonathan Hewett
- Journal Local
- Journalism.co.uk – media law
- Law Bore
- Learn WordPress.com
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- LSE Media Law Policy Project
- Matt Buck
- McNae’s student resources
- Media Standards Trust
- MediaPaL@LSE
- MediaWise
- Ministry of Justice
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- Ofcom Watch
- One Brick Court – news
- out-law.com
- panGloss
- PCC – links to regulators
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- Press Gazette – media law
- Recent decisions in England&Wales Court of Appeal (civil)
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- Reframing Libel Symposium
- Robert Sharp
- ScraperWiki
- TabloidWatch
- Talk About Local
- The Private Lives of Others
- The Small Places
- UK Human Rights Blog
- Wannabe Hacks
- WhatDoTheyKnow
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Piers Morgan on phone hacking and the ‘Great Bishop Alan Rusbridger’
Chat show host Piers Morgan, who believes he may be perceived as a “young British upstart” in the US, has questioned the Guardian’s moral and ethical position as “great bishops of all things moral in the print trade”. Listen to … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, media ethics, phone hacking Tagged alan rusbridger, phone hacking, piers morgan 4 Comments
Super-Eady?
This is pretty funny, via the Taiwan based NMA TV:
The marred privacy injunction
It was no legal secret that BBC presenter and former political correspondent Andrew Marr had secured an injunction in early 2008, preventing newspapers from reporting details about his private life. But this week was the first time the private information … Continue reading
Posted in media law, privacy, reporting restrictions, super injunctions Tagged andrew marr, super injunctions 3 Comments
Midweek media law mop up: Privacy rights and children; NMT Medical closure; and phone hacking coverage visualised
Just in time for the long bank holiday weekend, here’s this week’s media law news and comment round up. There has been lot of chatter around privacy injunctions, especially in regards to children’s rights and more will no doubt follow … Continue reading
Posted in media law, media law mop-up, media law resources Tagged nmt medical, peter wilmshurst, privacy 1 Comment
Midweek media law mop up: Third phone hacking arrest; HuffPo bloggers' legal row; and anonymous injunctions listed
This week’s round up comes as yet more phone hacking news breaks: a third arrest has been made and the Guardian reports that further police searches of News of the World HQ are expected. Seventeen cases are listed on the … Continue reading
Posted in media ethics, media law mop-up, phone hacking Tagged anonymous injunctions, huffington post 1 Comment
Privacy injunction hearings: not 'super' but anonymous
This week I helped the Inforrm blog put together a list of privacy injunction hearings, to contribute to the debate about super and anonymous injunctions. Versions of the post have appeared on the BBC College of Journalism and the Italian-English … Continue reading
Posted in media law, privacy, super injunctions Tagged anonymity, privacy, super injunctions 2 Comments
Midweek media law mop up: Phone hacking arrests; BBC Four's See You In Court; & new Defamation Joint Committee
Here’s this week’s round up of media law news from sunny London. Phone hacking and defamation reform, as usual, dominate. Hopefully we won’t inadvertently include any legal April Fools. Defamation Inforrm>>Defamation Update: Part 3 – Heather Rogers QC FT.com>> Libel … Continue reading
Posted in media law, media law mop-up Tagged bbc four, defamation joint committee, phone hacking arrests, television 1 Comment
Mooting in Oxford
Twenty-seven teams from 18 different countries gathered in Oxford last week to compete in the fourth Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition organised by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, … Continue reading