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Media and Law Review of the Year 2012: Parts 1, 2 and 3

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

My review of the media and legal news for 2012 is now published on the Inforrm blog in three parts: Part 1: January – April Part 2: May – August Part 3: September – December And if you fancy a … Continue reading →

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Media PLE: Educating the public about the legal risks of social media use

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

This morning’s Radio 4 Today programme raised the issue of social media users’ “ignorance” around legal issues, with the Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer, who has today issued Interim guidelines on “prosecuting cases involving communications sent via social media”. … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Round Up – 17 December 2012

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

Defamation, privacy, phone hacking litigation and media regulation in this week’s  Law and Media Round Up, which can be read in full at the Inforrm blog.

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Lawbore, revamped – online gateway to legal resources

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

Guest post by Lawbore The Lawbore website was born a whole decade ago, in 2002, at a time when there were few websites for lawyers or law students. Today of course, all branches of the legal profession enjoys consuming and … Continue reading →

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Mark Thompson, the legal letter, and the Savile investigation

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

Stewart Purvis, professor of television journalism at City University London (formerly of ITN and Ofcom) has been carefully tracking the detail around ex-BBC director-general Mark Thompson’s legal interaction with the Sunday Times, following the newspaper’s questions about the BBC’s handling … Continue reading →

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Beyond Leveson: Legal protection for online and ‘citizen’ media

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

I’ve previously written about Leveson’s online elephant (as had Index on Censorship’s Marta Cooper before me). As the debate intensifies over the shape of ‘press’ regulation (the key question is whether or not a new regulator should be underpinned by … Continue reading →

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Upcoming JUSTICE event: Life and law online – defamation, freedom of expression and the web

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

Meeja Law is pleased to be supporting JUSTICE’s upcoming defamation and freedom of expression event on 20 November 2012. JUSTICE, a law reform and human rights charitable organisation, will be exploring  developments in libel, privacy and freedom of expression online … Continue reading →

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Unmanned aerial journalism: how drones could be the industry’s next big thing

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

Some specialists would prefer that we called drones by their official name, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. However, UAV journalism doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as ‘drone journalism’, which according to participants at a seminar in Oxford this week … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Round Up – 22 October 2012

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

Belatedly cross-posting from Monday… The Jimmy Savile scandal continues to dominate news headlines, with focus on the BBC’s decision to drop its Newsnight film. Reports in the The Times (£), Channel 4, the Independent and elsewhere quote internal emails between … Continue reading →

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Gideon Benaim: Payments for private information and the regulation of journalism

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

Gideon Benaim, partner at Michael Simkins LLP (formerly of Schillings), has responded to my question about the potential regulation of payments for private information, in a blog post for Inforrm. He argues that “unless there is a legitimate public interest … Continue reading →

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