A mid-week round up of UK media law news and comment. Not exhaustive, of course. Apologies for its brevity. Lengthier comment next week!
Libel
- Inforrm>>Case Law: Farrall v Kordowski – assessment of libel damages http://bit.ly/h1OdcC
- LSE MediaPal>>’Ordinary person’ vs ‘the Press': the unmentioned ‘other’ problem with libel law http://bit.ly/ielK6G
- Press Gazette>>Victory in sight for Hardeep Singh in libel tourism battle: http://bit.ly/hTIJKU
- Inforrm>>News: Hardeep Singh libel claim, appeal abandoned? http://bit.ly/eYQXxs
Contempt of court
- Media Guardian>>Daily Mail and Sun accused of contempt over online photos http://bit.ly/gqRkbq
Privacy
- Inforrm>>Reporting Privacy: JIH “Privacy Madness”? – Mark Thomson: http://bit.ly/g0tohy
- Press Gazette>>Sportsman wins media gagging order appeal: http://bit.ly/eeRv7r
- Inforrm>>Case Law: JIH v News Group Newspapers, anonymity regained – Edward Craven: http://bit.ly/hA1KtI
Costs
- Out-Law.com>>Jackson slams piecemeal civil litigation funding proposals: http://bit.ly/epVmLp
Injunctions (misc)
- Inforrm>>News: Climate change sceptic fails in BBC injunction application http://bit.ly/ekerzx
- Press Gazette>>BBC sees off climate-change film legal challenge: http://bit.ly/ifFwIU
FoI / Wikileaks
- Inforrm>>News: ‘Freedom of Information in the Wikileaks Era’ http://bit.ly/hUuOh9
- Andrew Murray’s full talk from Monday’s Wikileaks event at BICCL http://bit.ly/gIjMZh
- Greg Mitchell>> “Cablegate” to Date: A Unique List of What’s Been Revealed
Phone hacking
- Press Gazette>>PCC forms new phone-hack working group http://bit.ly/dKFN8X
- Inforrm>>Opinion: “The PCC’s working group on phone hacking – too little too late” – Martin Moore: http://bit.ly/gjyWlt
Crime maps
- Out-Law.com>>ICO approves crime maps but warns of possible privacy dangers: http://bit.ly/hrE9QJ
- http://www.police.uk/
Media / advertising regulation
- IPMediaLaw>>Comment Is Free-OFT crackdown on Celebrity Twitter Endorsements: http://bit.ly/heJA8B
Court reporting
- Press Gazette>>MPs proposes bill on pre-conviction crime anonymity http://bit.ly/exbFPS
- Media Guardian>>MPs want to ban the naming of suspects to avoid media feeding frenzies: http://bit.ly/fTmHRu
- Press Gazette>>Court of Appeal quashes murder case reporting ban http://bit.ly/gEsk13
- Alison Gow>> Court orders that make court reporting redundant: http://bit.ly/gdgYge
- UK Human Rights Blog>> Supreme Court welcomes Tweeters
- The Register>> UK’s Supreme Court greenlights Twitter usage
One to mull over:
- One woman’s account of her defamation action against the Daily Mail. Also see comments on Roy Greenslade’s blog.
Know about a media law/ethics event? Let me know and I’ll put it in the round up and on a soon-to-be-written events page. You can find a full stream of aggregated media law news via @medialawUK on Twitter; and Meeja Law tweets go out via @meejalaw. Contact me via @jtownend or
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