On Meeja Law this week: the PCC’s first ruling on newspapers’ republication of tweets; the Lord Chief Justice’s consultation on Twitter in court; and a City Law school blog carnival.

Also, the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism Twitter account (@citycljj), Facebook page and blog is up and running. More content on those sites soon…

Here’s a run-down of some of the major media law and ethics stories this week, so far (with a focus on the UK).

Court reporting

• Press Gazette>>Security guard stops Mirror’s Penman entering court
• Press Gazette>>Supreme Court allows reporters to use Twitter
• Media Guardian>>The Twitter era of court reporting is here, despite the risk of prejudice (Joshua Rozenberg)
• The Sheridan Trial Blog, the last post

Freedom of Information

• Inforrm>>Revisited and Revised: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information (Three parts) – Hugh Tomlinson QC. Part One / Part Two / Part Three

Libel

• Inforrm>>News: Libel in the Supreme Court [Revised]
• Inforrm>>Flood v Times Newspapers – the Appeal Documents
• Press Gazette>>New twist in Lynn Barber’s Telegraph review libel battle
• Inforrm>>Case Law: Wallis v Meredith – another libel strike out – Sara Mansoori

International libel

• Index on Censorship>>Venezuelan journalist prosecuted for criminal libel

Contempt of Court

• Press Gazette>>Pre-charge anonymity bill dropped

Phone hacking

• Inforrm>>News: Metropolitan Police phone hacking update and more victims
• Inforrm>>News: Home Affairs Select Committee Publishes Phone Hacking Evidence
• Love and Garbage>> Observer and Operation Motorman again – more questions

Self-regulation

• Out-Law.com>>Newspaper’s use of Twitter posts was legitimate, rules watchdog
• The Media Blog>> Of course Twitter’s public… but is it newsworthy?
• OnlineJournalismBlog>> How private is a tweet?
• OnlineJournalismBlog>> PCC gets SEO in new ruling on online corrections

Miscellaneous

• Guardian>> INM threatens to sue Irish Mail on Sunday over spoof cover

Murphy / Sky

The City Law School Research blog carnival on the pub landlady’s legal battle over broadcasting rights:

• Can broadcasting copyrights hinder the internal market?
• More commentary on the AG’s opinion
• Communication to the Public in Murphy
• Football economics
• Transatlantic lessons from the EU challenge to exclusive broadcast territories
• Murphy – Price Discrimination in the Internal Market
• Summary of Advocate General’s Opinion
• Opinion Released: Competition before Copyright
• Beer, and Football on TV

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Discussion

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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 (admittedly, I’ve said that for a few weeks now). 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