Monthly Archives: June 2012

Open Justice in the Digital Era – a couple of updates

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

A few quick updates on recent developments relating to open legal data. “Unleashing the potential” The Cabinet Office has published its white paper on open data.  Freedom of Information and Re-using Data is covered, which the Guardian summarises here on … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Round Up – 25 June 2012

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog:
Parliament continues to consider the Defamation Bill 2012, with the public bill committee meeting on Tuesday 26 June (see below, “Next week in Parliament”). Last week the committee rejected an amendment which would have…

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Law and Media Round Up – 18 June 2012

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog:
The Defamation Bill 2012 received renewed attention this week ahead of its second reading in the House of Commons, particularly over Clause 5 which concerns a defence for operators of websites.  Media organisations reported…

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Law and Media Round Up – 11 June 2012

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

Originally posted on Inforrm's Blog:
The round up returns after a bank holiday break last week. Inforrm summarised developments during the Easter Legal Term here: four (judge alone) libel trials, one involving a media defendant, and one privacy trial,…

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Barry Turner: Media criminality – a failure of law, not regulation

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

This guest post by Barry Turner, senior lecturer in media law at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at Nottingham Trent University, is a response to this post by Daniel Bennett: ‘After Leveson – a State of the News Media report … Continue reading →

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Phone hacking scandal: Historicization and trial by media

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

Two phone hacking related announcements from the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City University London. Historical context This event hosted by the City Media Network, as part of the Sociology Department PhD students seminar series, will take place on … Continue reading →

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