Category Archives: phone hacking

Law and Media Round Up – 8 October 2012

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog: We are now a week into the new legal term, and while it’s still party conference season for MPs, the Defamation Bill will receive its second reading in the House of Lords on Monday 9 October.  … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Round Up – 24 September 2012

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog: The theme of privacy continued to dominate media law discussion last week, as a French court granted an injunction prohibiting further publication of the Duchess of Cambridge photographs in France. Press Gazette reported that the editor … 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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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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Phone hacking scandal: Historicization and trial by media

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

Two phone hacking related announcements from the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City University London. Historical context This event hosted by the City Media Network, as part of the Sociology Department PhD students seminar series, will take place on … 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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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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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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Cross-post: Press ‘omerta’ – How newspapers’ failure to report the phone hacking scandal exposed the limitations of media accountability

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Cross-posted on the Media Standards Trust blog, by Daniel Bennett and Judith Townend “[Nick] Davies’s work…has gained no traction at all in the rest of Fleet Street, which operates under a system of omerta so strict that it would secure … 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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