Category Archives: leveson inquiry

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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