Phone hacking

Privacy

• Media Guardian>>Have super-injunctions killed the kiss’n'tell?
• Out-Law.com>>Children’s rights should outweigh almost all cases of public interest in newspaper stories, Court of Appeal says
• Media Guardian>>What are these super-injunctions all about
• RPC Privacy>> Workplace affairs are private – especially if one half of the couple has children
• Press Gazette>>Appeal court upholds News of the World privacy gag
• Inforrm>>Case Law: ETK v News Group Newspapers “Privacy Injunctions and Children” – Edward Craven
• Media Guardian>>New breed of gagging order could send journalists to jail, MP claims
• Media Guardian>>Should newspapers pay sex workers to dish the dirt on their clients?
• London Evening Standard >> Law is badly in need of reform as celebrities hide secrets – Roy Greenslade
• Telegraph>> New gagging orders are ‘a recipe for hiding injustice
• One Brick Court>> ETK V News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 439
• Head of Legal>> ZAM v CFW & TFW: has John Hemming changed his mind?
• Left Food Forward>> Press freedom in peril: Another celeb injunction, and now a contra mundum

Defamation

• Index on Censorship>> US company suing cardiologist for libel goes out of business
• Inforrm>>Clift v Slough Borough Council – Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal
• One Brick Court>> Baturina v Times Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 308
• One Brick Court>> Cook v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2011] EWHC 763 (QB)

Press regulation

• Media Guardian>>Michael Grade joins the PCC

Open justice

• Press Gazette>>Secret doctors’ courts move a ‘disaster’ for patients

Police & papers

• Press Gazette>>Police to look at ‘historic claims’ of tabloid payments
• Former reporter jailed for leaking police information

Twitter joke trial

• Jack of Kent>>Twitter Joke Trial: the case stated by Doncaster Crown Court

Copyright

• BJP>> Daily Mail accused of lifting Flickr image

Newsroom disputes

• Media Guardian>> Reuters fires bureau chief over online chatroom remark
• Kyiv Post>> Joint statement by Kyiv Post journalists and owner Mohammad Zahoor
• Journalism.co.uk>> Kyiv Post staff strike after editor’s departure

Related judgments

• ETK v News Group Newspapers Ltd. [2011] EWCA Civ 439 (19 April 2011)
• OPQ v BJM & Anor [2011] EWHC 1059 (QB) (20 April 2011)
• Police of the Metropolis & Anoir v Times Newspapers Ltd & Anor [2011] EWHC 776 (QB) (18 April 2011)
• Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd (Rev 1) [2011] EWHC 1058 (QB) (20 April 2011)

Resource of the week

It’s good to see that the newly designed Hold the Front Page site has a specific media law section now, which makes it easier follow their stories by RSS.

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