Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog:

Module three of the Leveson Inquiry is now underway, examining the relationship between press and politicians. Jack Straw, Lord Wakeham, Alastair Campbell and Sir Harold Evans were among the witnesses during the Inquiry's 19th week, as Natalie Peck summarised here.

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Contempt

• Media Guardian>>Facebook juror jailed for eight months
• Media Guardian>>Facebook contempt of court case: transcript of the online chat

Libel

• Press Gazette>>Telegraph wins libel battle over MP expenses story
• Press Gazette>>PCC could be asked to mediate libel claims
• Jon Slattery>> CPBF: ‘Tribunals best way to reform libel laws’
• Media Guardian>>Could the PCC become ‘court of first resort’ for libel claimants?
• Press Gazette>>Bond producer Broccoli wins libel payout from Mail titles
• Media Guardian>>James Bond producer accepts libel payout from Mail titles
• Press Gazette>>Indy brands Bahrain’s libel threat a ‘half-cocked pr stunt’
• Index on Censorship>> Bahrani government to sue the Independent for libel
• Media Guardian>>Can Bahrain’s government sue the Independent for libel? | David Banks
• Media Guardian>>Argus editor accuses council PR of libel

Media regulation

• Guardian>> BBC to apologise on air to Primark for Panorama documentary
• Roy Greenslade>> Why the BBC Trust is wrong to have found against Panorama

Phone hacking

• Press Gazette>>Ex judge to oversee NoW phone-hack compensation fund
• Press Gazette>>Giggs to sue NoW over phone-hack allegations
• Inforrm>>News: Home Affairs Select Committee on Hacking – Phone Company Evidence
• Press Gazette>>Report: Met widens NoW phone-hack investigation
• Inforrm>>News: Phone Hacking, Email Hacking and Blagging – the investigation expands

Privacy injunctions

• Inforrm>>Essay: Sir Stephen Sedley on Superinjunctions in the London Review of Books
• RPC Privacy>> Justice Secretary expresses concern over MPs defying injunctions
• RPC Privacy>> A former judge reflects on privacy injunctions
• Inforrm>>Case Law: Goodwin v NGN – Privacy, Intrusion and Novelty – Mark Thomson
• Press Gazette>>Zac Goldsmith defends taking out super-injunction
• Index on Censorship>> Mr Justice Eady on balancing acts
• Inforrm>>Hiding Behind Anonymity – Lucy Middleton
• Private Eye: The Sun & Free Speech

Copyright

• Out-Law.com>>Company acting over use of newspaper snippets did not have right to sue, says US court

Reporting restrictions

• HTFP>> Youths named after reporter’s court challenge

Freedom of expression

• Jack of Kent>>The unanswered questions for Dyfed Powys Police
• Press Gazette>>Photographer covering mass brawl outside court arrested

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