Category Archives: human rights

Guest post: Online content and defamation – the emerging British approach

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

This post by Angela Daly originally appeared on the MediaLaws.eu site Earlier this year the British government started to consider new legislation on the topic of defamation, with the publication of a consultation on a draft Defamation Bill in March … Continue reading →

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Guest post: Judge forbids live tweeting in Isle of Wight case

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

The hyperlocal site, VentnorBlog, was at the High Court at the end of July, to cover a Leave Hearing for a Judicial Review between an Isle of Wight resident and the Isle of Wight council. In this guest post, VB’s … Continue reading →

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Balancing rights: Joshua Rozenberg interviews Mr Justice Eady

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

The new issue of the Index on Censorship magazine proclaims ‘Privacy Is Dead! Long Live Privacy.’ It features Joshua Rozenberg’s interview with Mr Justice Eady. Parts of it echo Eady’s previous speeches (for example, when he opened City University London’s … Continue reading →

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[Cross-post] 'Freedom of Information in the Wikileaks Era'

Posted on February 2, 2011 by

This post originally appeared on the Inforrm blog. Julian Assange is more than capable of dominating a room he’s not actually in, showed Monday’s event at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, ‘Freedom of Information in the WikiLeaks … Continue reading →

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