“News Group Newspapers, former publisher of the defunct News of the World, is being sued for £100,000 by a prison warden’s brother who claims that a senior executive at the newspaper confirmed to police he was the source of leaked stories about the Soham killer Ian Huntley.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The arrest of Christopher Jefferies on 30 December automatically obliged the media to restrict reporting of legal proceedings against the retired Bristol schoolteacher.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The provisions of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code had to be interpreted, as well as being applied in a particular case, so as to comply with the requirements of the right to freedom of expression in article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The question whether the publication of a finding by the statutory regulator constituted a permissible interference with a claimed right to freedom of expression under the article demanded rigorous scrutiny.”
WLR Daily, 17th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A man has been cleared of harassing his wife’s millionaire lover on the internet in ‘a victory for free speech and the small man’.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“DJ Jon Gaunt has lost his appeal against a High Court ruling upholding Ofcom’s 2009 decision to censure him.”
BBC News, 17th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A plumber standing trial after he tweeted and blogged claims about his wife’s alleged affair said his case had ‘big legal implications’.”
The Independent, 15th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A plumber who used the internet to highlight his wife’s affair with a director of one of the world’s largest financial companies will appear in court on harassment charges. Lawyers believe the case could help define the limits of free expression on the internet.”
The Observer, 12th June 2011
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
“The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, have asked parliament to examine whether the law and the courts have established an appropriate balance between the rights to privacy and freedom of expression in the wake of the celebrity injunction crisis.”
The Guardian, 9th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, have asked parliament to examine whether the law and the courts have established an appropriate balance between the rights to privacy and freedom of expression in the wake of the celebrity injunction crisis.”
The Guardian, 9th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Court 10 at the Royal Courts of Justice has had more visitors than usual in the past month as the press fights back against what it perceives as encroaching privacy laws.”
The Lawyer, 30th May 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Twitter has been forced to hand over the personal details of a British user in a libel battle that could have huge implications for free speech on the web.”
The Guardian, 29th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A report by a top judge is likely to recommend the media are allowed into court when injunctions and so-called super-injunctions are being sought.”
BBC News, 20th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government will not introduce a privacy law, Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, has said. Instead, Parliament will consider producing more detailed guidance for judges to interpret the Human Rights Act.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“What better evening to launch the second edition of Tugendhat and Christie’s The Law of Privacy and the Media than the day on which the European Court of Human Rights handed down its hotly anticipated decision in Mosley v the United Kingdom? On 10 May, the publishers Oxford University Press must have been slapping themselves on the back for their good timing. The judges and senior practitioners present talked of little else.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th May 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) won favour with newspaper media lawyers last week after it rejected a bid by former International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley to force newspapers to warn people beforehand if they are going to publish details of their private lives.”
The Lawyer, 16th May 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The model Imogen Thomas’s legal fight to name the married footballer with whom she had an affair took a dramatic twist when she found herself accused of allegedly blackmailing the man with demands for first £50,000 and then £100,000.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Today’s ruling by the European court of human rights in Max Mosley’s privacy case is a victory for the British government, which argued at the hearing in January that countries were entitled to a wide ‘margin of appreciation’ – in other words, discretion – in deciding how to strike the balance between freedom of expression and respect for an individual’s private life.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Max Mosley, the former Formula One boss, lost his legal challenge to force newspapers to warn people before publishing stories exposing their private lives, after a European court ruled on Tuesday that such as system would have a ‘chilling effect’ on the press.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Max Mosley judgment in full
“EU proposals to force internet service providers (ISPs) to block illicit content are not clear, would restrict freedom of speech and impose censorship across Europe, the European Digital Rights group (EDRi) says.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“David Cameron says he is ‘uneasy’ about the development of a privacy law by judges based on the European Convention. How can we balance the right to publication with the right to privacy?”
The Guardian, 26th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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