Media law mop up: Comment moderation; Operation Weeting; and Goodwin injunction

• jtownend
• 5 years ago
• Categories: journalism, media ethics, media law mop-up, media law resources, media regulation, phone hacking
• Tags: comment moderating, operation weeting

Phone hacking is back in today’s headlines, while Fred Goodwin’s injunction is the top privacy story. Meanwhile, me, myself and Meeja Law have been writing about other things: a flawed ComRes poll on super injunctions on the CLJJ blog, publicity issues in the Court of Protection for the Inforrm blog, a privacy law event at Gray’s Inn, and a comment moderation dispute in the Isle of Wight.  The latter story has subsequently been picked up by the BBC College of Journalism and Jon Slattery’s blog. Here’s the usual round up:

Phone hacking

• Inforrm>>News: Phone Hacking, Email Hacking and Blagging – the investigation expands
• Media Guardian>>Lawyers stifle another attempt to discover Mulcaire’s legal funding
• Index on Censorship>> Endgame at News International
• Press Gazette>>MP: Hacking investigation should probe 2nd detective
• Press Gazette>>Sienna Miller agrees 100k phone-hack settlement

Privacy injunctions

• Press Gazette>>Why judge upheld secret order for ‘private man’ Goodwin
• Media Guardian>>Fred Goodwin told by judge details of his affair were in the public interest
• Media Guardian>>Sun’s public interest claim in Sir Fred Goodwin case rejected
• Press Gazette>>News Group fails to overturn Goodwin injunction
• Press Gazette>>Sex offender mayor fails in press privacy bid
• Media Guardian>>Injunctions are on the way out, instead lawyers need to get media-savvy | Tim Toulmin
• Inforrm>>Public Opinion and Privacy Injunctions: “do you agree that the media should not be gagged by super-injunctions?”
• Press Gazette>>Privacy row footballer Giggs hit by 2nd affair claim
• Press Gazette>>Sunday World names injunction actors
• Inforrm>>The MP and the superinjunction: the strange case of the missing court order
• The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship » Ten things I’ve learned about injunctions

Wider privacy issues

• Inforrm>>Book Review: “Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities’ Private Lives, Media, and the Law” by Robin D. Barnes – Natalie Peck
• Media Guardian>>Jeremy Hunt and Ken Clarke set out remit for privacy committee
• Media Guardian>>Tomlinson – why Hemming, tweeters and editors are wrong about privacy
• MST>> The many meanings of privacy – Natalie Peck
• openDemocracy>> Privacy, super-injunctions and Twitter: what should we do?

Court of Protection

• Press Gazette>>Father could not have freed autistic son without press
• Inforrm>>Superinjunction Spring: publicity issues in the Court of Protection – Judith Townend

Contempt of court

• Media Guardian>>Twitter users who breach injunctions risk legal action, warns attorney general
• Press Gazette>>Attorney General’s contempt warning for Twitter users

Freedom of expression

• Index on Censorship>> MF Husain: Farewell to a nation’s chronicler

Freedom of information & reporting access

• By @davidhiggerson>> FOI Friday: FIFA costs, secret letters, mystery names and put down down
• Wimbledon Guardian>> Wimbledon MP Stephen Hammond denied access and reporter evicted from Merton Council public meeting at Dundonald Primary School

Press standards

• MST>> Churnalism weekly – Daily Express, Tuesday 7th June
• Press Gazette>>Sun apology and damages to Baby P social worker
• Index on Censorship>> Index on the Big Questions

Copyright

• Out-Law.com>>EU creators need single copyright regime, says EU Commissioner

Data protection

• Out-Law.com>>New law on cookies, data breaches and ICO powers comes into force today
• Out-Law.com>>Data protection watchdogs to probe Facebook about its use of facial recognition technology
• Out-Law.com>>Council promises better data protection after vulnerable adult data loss

Open justice

• Media Guardian>>Should TV cameras be allowed inside UK law courts?

Resource of the week

• The Digital Journalist’s Legal Guide [US]

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