Category Archives: courts

Inforrm Law and Media Round Up – Rothschild, Twitter joke trial, Von Hannover and Sun arrests

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

I’ve rounded up the past week in media law over at the Inforrm blog. The coming week should be a bit quieter, with no significant hearings listed in the courts, the House of Commons in recess and the Leveson Inquiry … Continue reading →

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Open Justice Week – a few more details

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

Yesterday I blogged about a new Scottish initiative for ‘Open Justice Week‘, starting Monday 27 February. Its organisers have since replied to my questions – their answers are shared below: How will your partnership with the Guardian work? We are … Continue reading →

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Open justice: forging the digital path ahead

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

In a nice bit of serendipity, I discovered yesterday that the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism’s ‘Justice Wide Open‘ event on 29 February will fall in ‘Open Justice Week’, a new initiative led by James Doleman, of the Tommy … Continue reading →

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Getting Lord Justice Leveson’s name right

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

“Don’t start me on the subject of misrepresented titles or names.  I suffer that to this day, but there it is.” That was Lord Justice Leveson on 20 December 2011, as noted in this year’s Inforrm media law quiz, won … Continue reading →

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New event: Justice Wide Open – legal knowledge in the digital era

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

For some time, I’ve been longing to set up an event around the theme of digital open justice. So I’m very excited to announce that the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism will be hosting ‘Justice Wide Open’ on Wednesday … Continue reading →

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‘Contempt of a cosmic order’: legal risk of the Daily Mail’s 1997 “Murderers” front page

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

This morning, the Daily Mail was unusually willing to name check its rival titles, including the Independent, the Times, the Guardian and the Financial Times, for applauding the paper’s bold 1997 ‘Murderers’ headline (below left), which accused five men of … Continue reading →

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What will 2012 bring for media law?

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

I’ve rounded up the year in media over on Inforrm, month by month. Its notable features included frenzied coverage of “super injunctions”, the development of the phone hacking scandal and the launch of the Leveson Inquiry. Defamation took a back … Continue reading →

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Cross-post: Is unfamiliarity breeding contempt?

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

This post also appeared on the Media Standards Trust blog. In March 2011, the Daily Mail and Sun were found guilty of contempt of court for publishing online photographs of a defendant posing with a gun at the start of … Continue reading →

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Leveson Inquiry – follow the tweets live

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

And so begins day one of the formal Leveson Inquiry, in Court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice. Proceedings will be streamed live from 10:30am today on the relaunched Leveson Inquiry website. The public can attend hearings although seating … Continue reading →

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A response to the Open Data Consultation

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

Lucy Series, a doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter, and I have submitted a response to the Cabinet Office’s open data consultation. Our focus is opening up data in the legal sphere: court listings, judgments, information about reporting restrictions … Continue reading →

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