‘Edward Heaton, Principal Associate and Jane Booth, Associate, both of Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during September 2015.’
Family Law Week, 11th October 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Regulations concerning media reporting of how divorcing couples divide up their disputed assets are chaotic, a senior family court judge has acknowledged.’
The Guardian, 28th September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Keen observers of UK policing issues will be forgiven for having missed one of the biggest stories of the year so far: the planned complete overhaul of the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), including the introduction of a national police ombudsman supported by regional ombudsmen.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd September 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The UK’s major national newspaper groups have joined forces and told the Government not to water down freedom of information transparency laws.’
The Independent, 22nd September 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An ex-official who leaked stories about an immigration centre has been spared jail to care for his two children.’
BBC News, 21st September 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The BBC has won a case against Russian TV channel RT, which claimed the corporation faked a report on Syria.’
Full story
BBC News, 21st September 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The spring of 2011 saw a rise in hysteria over privacy law. Superinjunctions were being simultaneously dismantled using the ancient protections afforded to debates in parliament, and more modern protections of anonymous postings on social media.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st September 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘DL v SL [2015] EWHC 2621 (Fam) 27 July 2015 (Mostyn J). This was a simple, if contentious, divorce case in which the judge took the opportunity to make a point about balancing the principle of open judgment – allowing media coverage of cases – against the privacy of the parties involved. Whilst he was ready to acknowledge that publicity ensures not only the probity of the judge but the veracity of the witnesses, and that such publicity served promote understanding and debate about the legal process, in some cases privacy should trump the rights of the press.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th September 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Channel 4 has asked the broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, to investigate a cash-for-access sting on two former foreign secretaries after criticism over its reporting of the allegations. The parliamentary commissioner for standards cleared Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw, and said the damage done to the former MPs could have been avoided if Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Daily Telegraph had accurately reported the exchanges they had filmed.’
The Guardian, 17th September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Independent Press Standards Organisation has rejected a complaint from Tony Blair seeking a retraction of a Daily Mail article that accused him of trying to “wriggle out” of an investigation by a committee of MPs.’
The Guardian, 3rd September 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Prosecutors are considering a file for a possible corporate prosecution over phone hacking at the News of the World.’
BBC News, 28th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘International broadcasters including the BBC repeatedly broke the Ofcom code by screening programmes funded by foreign governments, charities and NGOs, an investigation has revealed.’
The Independent, 17th August 2015
SOurce: www.independent.co.uk
‘A “prominent and successful” professional sportsman has been granted an injunction preventing a newspaper from publishing a story about his sexual relationship with a female celebrity.’
The Guardian, 6th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom is investigating Sky over concerns that customers’ attempts to cancel their contracts are being ignored.’
The Guardian, 6th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Businesses and people that bring libel actions should not succeed with those claims unless there is proof that the published comments made about them damage, or are likely to damage, their reputation, the High Court in London has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 5th August 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A newspaper ad promoting the Book of Mormon that featured an expletive-laden endorsement from Jon Stewart has been cleared by the UK advertising watchdog.
The Guardian, 5th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The right to be forgotten is beginning to generate some litigation, albeit not yet with any blaze of glory. Following on from the attempt to judicially review the ICO for refusing to try and enforce an individual’s complaint that his data rights were being breached (see here), earlier this week a claimant failed to get his right to be forgotten claim to fly before the Nottingham County Court.’
Panopticon, 31st July 2015
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘”Cockroaches” according to Katie Hopkins. A “swarm” according to our likeminded Prime Minister, David Cameron, and The Daily Mail (again). An “army” according to the popular press, who seem to think we should literally send troops into France (without asking the French, we can assume) to hold the thin red line. “Migrants” to others. Why never “refugees”, though, which is what most of them are? What do we know about who these people are — brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and children, all of them — and why they want to come to the UK?’
Free Movement, 31st July 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘A man involved in a £51m VAT scam has lost a legal bid to have news stories about him removed from Google under the so-called “right to be forgotten”.’
Full story
BBC News, 30th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The broadcast regulator Ofcom has issued a £25,000 fine after the star of a television show called Yoga for You told viewers that he could cure cancer using “11 holy basil leaves and three black peppers”.’
The Independent, 29th July 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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