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Law and Media Round Up – 11 March 2013

Posted on March 12, 2013 by jtownend

Yesterday’s round up, with listings for the week ahead can be found on Inforrm’s Blog.

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Law and Media Round Up – 11 February 2013

Posted on February 11, 2013 by jtownend

This week’s Law and Media Round Up – 11 February 2013, at Inforrm’s Blog.

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Digitally published Magistrates’ Court Lists: how should it be done?

Posted on January 23, 2013 by jtownend

There is little disagreement with the idea that there should be increased public access to legal proceedings, but how it should be done creates some debate.  As I’ve written before, online publication of court records has developed in a piecemeal … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Round Up – 2 December 2012

Posted on December 3, 2012 by jtownend

This week’s round up leads with Leveson, of course, but there are other media law developments too: in O’Dwyer v ITV [2012] EWHC 3321, Maisto v Kyrgiannakis and Mengi v Hermitage [2012] EWHC 3445 (QB). Full Law and Media Round … Continue reading →

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Damian Carney: Media Accountability after the Phone Hacking Inquiry

Posted on August 30, 2012 by jtownend

Dr Damian Carney proposes the setting up of a new regulatory body for the press providing strong remedies for complainants, better internal controls on ethics and complaints – and enough independence from government and industry to appease the general public … Continue reading →

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Law and Media Mid-Summer Round Up – 29 August 2012

Posted on August 29, 2012 by jtownend

Inforrm's Blog Parliamentarians are still in recess, Lord Justice Leveson has finished taking evidence for Part 1 of his Inquiry, the Michaelmas legal term has not yet begun, but there have been more than enough media law related developments to … Continue reading →

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Damian Radcliffe: Hey! Regulator! Leave those Hyperlocals alone!

Posted on August 13, 2012 by jtownend

Damian Radcliffe conducted the UK’s first review of hyperlocal media, published by NESTA in March 2012, which touched on some of the legal and regulatory issues for small local websites. He has now returned to regulation and law in more … Continue reading →

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News – Lord Hunt: Journalism is already ‘subject to the most extensive legal inhibitions, guidance and codes’

Posted on April 5, 2012 by jtownend

Inforrm's Blog There is no need for statutory media regulation because there are a whole range of statutory controls that presently exist, Lord Hunt of Wirral said at the launch of the new edition of McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists … Continue reading →

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McNae’s: still essential, 21 editions later

Posted on March 30, 2012 by jtownend

A journalist with no formal legal training gave his name to the industry’s media law “bible”. Leonard McNae, 1902-1996, wrote the first Essential Law for Journalists for the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), which was published as … Continue reading →

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PCC chair: “Have you got that Guardian?”

Posted on October 13, 2011 by jtownend

The outgoing chairman of the Press Complaints Commission last night singled out the Guardian for allegedly misquoting her “non-stop” for the past three years. Baroness Buscombe, who will step down from the self-regulation body in the new year this week, … Continue reading →

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