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Law and Media Round Up – 14 May 2012

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog: A high-profile week at the Leveson Inquiry, with evidence from Rebekah Brooks, the MailOnline editor Martin Clarke and Andy Coulson (see Natalie Peck’s Inforrm roundup).  As well as sharing David Cameron’s text-speak (lol), Brooks provided the … Continue reading →

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News - Lord Hunt: Journalism is already 'subject to the most extensive legal inhibitions, guidance and codes' – Judith Townend

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog: There is no need for statutory media regulation because there are a whole range of statutory controls that presently exist, Lord Hunt of Wirral said at the launch of the new edition of McNae’s Essential Law … Continue reading →

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Open Justice Week: Scottish court refuses permission to tweet; English High Court allows media access to phone hacking court documents

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

A quick update on recent open justice themed developments. The Open Justice UK group has been refused permission to live tweet a case in Scotland, as Cristiana Theodoli (@_cric) explains here. While journalists have applied to tweet and tweeting was … Continue reading →

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John Tulloch: Oiling a very special relationship – journalists, bribery and the detective police

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

This article by Professor John Tulloch, Lincoln School of Journalism, is an extract from The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial, edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair (Arima 2012). The book will be launched at an event in … Continue reading →

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Inforrm law and media round up: Siberian saunas, ill-advised tweeting and a blogging ASBO

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Please visit Inforrm for this week’s Law and Media Round Up [24-30 January 2012]. It features the first libel trial of the year, several ill-advised legal tweets and the latest from Leveson. Plus forthcoming events hearings and committee sessions. Read … 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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Scandal! Tabloid editor wasn’t thinking about selling newspapers

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

As a former rather than incumbent editor of the Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie obviously felt he could afford to take quite a cavalier approach to his Leveson evidence (perhaps playing to what he said is his “punchy”, “sort of anti-establishment” character). … Continue reading →

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