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- Channel 4 Producer's Handbook – Media Law
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- HMCS glossary of legal terms
- I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist
- Index on Censorship
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- IP Media Law
- Jack of Kent
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- Press Gazette – media law
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- Reframing Libel Symposium
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- The Private Lives of Others
- The Small Places
- UK Human Rights Blog
- Wannabe Hacks
- WhatDoTheyKnow
Category Archives: media law resources
Law and Media Round Up – 19 November 2012: Lord McAlpine, Smith v Trafford Housing Trust, Google’s latest Transparency Report
Lots to report in this week’s round up: an apology and damages to Lord McAlpine from the BBC, the latest Transparency Report from Google, news that the Principal of St Mary’s University College in Twickenham has dropped its legal action … Continue reading
Law and Media Round Up – 12 November 2012
Since writing this, there have already been new developments in the unfolding crisis at the BBC following its Newsnight programme on child abuse. But this is the media law week that was, rounded up here: Law and Media Round Up … Continue reading
Posted in media law resources Tagged bbc, defamation, jimmy savile, lord mcalpine, privacy Leave a comment
Beyond Leveson: Legal protection for online and ‘citizen’ media
I’ve previously written about Leveson’s online elephant (as had Index on Censorship’s Marta Cooper before me). As the debate intensifies over the shape of ‘press’ regulation (the key question is whether or not a new regulator should be underpinned by … Continue reading
Law and Media Round Up – 5 November 2012
Defamation, regulation, and internet policy in this week’s media law round up, including judgments in Cairns v Modi and KC v MGN Ltd ([2012] EWCA Civ 1382) [media summary here, PDF] and Ismail & Anor v News Group Newspapers Ltd … Continue reading
Law and Media Round Up; new Court of Appeal judgment on libel damages
This week’s round up, previously posted on the Inforrm blog, features Frankie Boyle’s successful libel case, the BBC fallout out following further allegations about Jimmy Savile and media regulation debated in the House of Lords. Additionally, since the round up … Continue reading
Posted in defamation, media law, media law mop-up, media law resources Tagged bbc, cairns v modi, defamation costs, frankie boyle, jimmy savile, kc v mgn Leave a comment
Law and Media Round Up – 22 October 2012
Belatedly cross-posting from Monday… The Jimmy Savile scandal continues to dominate news headlines, with focus on the BBC’s decision to drop its Newsnight film. Reports in the The Times (£), Channel 4, the Independent and elsewhere quote internal emails between … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, media law resources, newspapers Tagged attorney general, bbc panorama, cps, frankie boyle, jimmy savile, prince charles Leave a comment
Law and Media Round Up – 15 October 2012
Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog: We lead with criminal, rather than civil, law developments relating to media and communications. There have been a spate of prosecutions relating to social media use: a teenager from Lancashire was imprisoned for sick and grossly … Continue reading
Law and Media Round Up – 8 October 2012
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
Law and Media Round Up – 24 September 2012
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
A dearth of data about defamation cases in England & Wales
On Tuesday evening (18 Sept), the Law Society held a public debate on the Defamation Bill, asking the panel – including two QCs, a libel reform campaigner and an in-house newspaper lawyer – what they thought of its measures. Much … Continue reading