Category Archives: leveson inquiry

Leveson’s Legacy: Beyond dusty tomes and 21st century buzzwords

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

This post first appeared on the Center for Global Communication Studies blog, at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.  “The one thing I am determined not to do is to produce a document which simply sits on the … Continue reading →

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How should privacy injunctions be reported?

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

The recommended procedure and law around privacy injunctions “isn’t quite fit for purpose” according to Gideon Benaim, a partner at Michael Simkins LLP (formerly of Schillings), writing in the Guardian today. Comments seem to be closed on the piece so … Continue reading →

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Damian Carney: Media Accountability after the Phone Hacking Inquiry

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Dr Damian Carney proposes the setting up of a new regulatory body for the press providing strong remedies for complainants, better internal controls on ethics and complaints – and enough independence from government and industry to appease the general public … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Mid-Summer Round Up – 29 August 2012

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog:
Parliamentarians are still in recess, Lord Justice Leveson has finished taking evidence for Part 1 of his Inquiry, the Michaelmas legal term has not yet begun, but there have been more than enough media…

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Sketches from Leveson

Posted on August 24, 2012 by

Drawing in the courtroom is prohibited under s41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925, so broadcasters and newspapers use pastel sketches by talented and specialist artists who draw from memory outside the courtroom. This restriction does not apply to hearings in the Supreme … Continue reading →

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An elephant in courtroom 73? Social media, regulation and the law

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Lord Justice Leveson’s enormous task is to examine the culture, practices and ethics of the media, with a special emphasis on the “press”. This is because it was serious concerns about the behaviour of UK national newspapers that instigated the … Continue reading →

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Full Fact: “Open justice in this century must mean more than merely being able to walk into the courtroom”

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

Full Fact is a non-profit fact-checking organisation based in the UK, which has given oral and written evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. Part of its submission on ‘The internet and the Inquiry’ [PDF] concerns access to judicial information, which Full … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Round Up – 11 June 2012

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog:
The round up returns after a bank holiday break last week. Inforrm summarised developments during the Easter Legal Term here: four (judge alone) libel trials, one involving a media defendant, and one privacy trial,…

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Barry Turner: Media criminality – a failure of law, not regulation

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

This guest post by Barry Turner, senior lecturer in media law at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at Nottingham Trent University, is a response to this post by Daniel Bennett: ‘After Leveson – a State of the News Media report … Continue reading →

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After Leveson? A ‘State of the News Media’ report for the UK

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

By Daniel Bennett With each day of Leveson evidence new stones are overturned, exposing the wider systemic and cultural problems that contributed to the phone-hacking scandal. The ‘post-Leveson’ question becomes ever more pressing, as identified at yesterday’s University of Westminster conference, … Continue reading →

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