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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