Media law mop up: Facebook contempt; Giggs' phone hacking claim; Broccoli wins libel payout

• jtownend
• 5 years ago
• Categories: media law, media law mop-up, media law resources, super injunctions
• Tags: facebook, ryan giggs, super injunctions

A juror has become the first person in Britain to be convicted for contempt of court involving the internet, reportedly widely in the press. Meanwhile plenty of libel-related news: a payout for Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, a row between the Argus in Brighton and the local council, and Bahrain complains about coverage in the Independent.

Contempt

• Media Guardian>>Facebook juror jailed for eight months
• Media Guardian>>Facebook contempt of court case: transcript of the online chat

Libel

• Press Gazette>>Telegraph wins libel battle over MP expenses story
• Press Gazette>>PCC could be asked to mediate libel claims
• Jon Slattery>> CPBF: ‘Tribunals best way to reform libel laws’
• Media Guardian>>Could the PCC become ‘court of first resort’ for libel claimants?
• Press Gazette>>Bond producer Broccoli wins libel payout from Mail titles
• Media Guardian>>James Bond producer accepts libel payout from Mail titles
• Press Gazette>>Indy brands Bahrain’s libel threat a ‘half-cocked pr stunt’
• Index on Censorship>> Bahrani government to sue the Independent for libel
• Media Guardian>>Can Bahrain’s government sue the Independent for libel? | David Banks
• Media Guardian>>Argus editor accuses council PR of libel

Media regulation

• Guardian>> BBC to apologise on air to Primark for Panorama documentary
• Roy Greenslade>> Why the BBC Trust is wrong to have found against Panorama

Phone hacking

• Press Gazette>>Ex judge to oversee NoW phone-hack compensation fund
• Press Gazette>>Giggs to sue NoW over phone-hack allegations
• Inforrm>>News: Home Affairs Select Committee on Hacking – Phone Company Evidence
• Press Gazette>>Report: Met widens NoW phone-hack investigation
• Inforrm>>News: Phone Hacking, Email Hacking and Blagging – the investigation expands

Privacy injunctions

• Inforrm>>Essay: Sir Stephen Sedley on Superinjunctions in the London Review of Books
• RPC Privacy>> Justice Secretary expresses concern over MPs defying injunctions
• RPC Privacy>> A former judge reflects on privacy injunctions
• Inforrm>>Case Law: Goodwin v NGN – Privacy, Intrusion and Novelty – Mark Thomson
• Press Gazette>>Zac Goldsmith defends taking out super-injunction
• Index on Censorship>> Mr Justice Eady on balancing acts
• Inforrm>>Hiding Behind Anonymity – Lucy Middleton
• Private Eye: The Sun & Free Speech

Copyright

• Out-Law.com>>Company acting over use of newspaper snippets did not have right to sue, says US court

Reporting restrictions

• HTFP>> Youths named after reporter’s court challenge

Freedom of expression

• Jack of Kent>>The unanswered questions for Dyfed Powys Police
• Press Gazette>>Photographer covering mass brawl outside court arrested

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