‘Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney have taken the “Wagatha Christie” case back to court for a further hearing over soaring costs.’
The Independent, 28th May 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The former footballer and manager Joey Barton calling the broadcaster Jeremy Vine a “bike nonce” on social media was defamatory, a high court judge has ruled.’
The Guardian, 24th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ofcom is considering a statutory sanction against GB News over “serious and repeated” breaches of British television laws relating to the channel’s lack of impartiality.’
The Guardian, 20th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Conservative MP David Davis has used parliamentary privilege to ask why UK readers were barred from viewing an article in a prominent US magazine about the case of the former nurse Lucy Letby.’
The Guardian, 15th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The BBC has agreed to pay “substantial” compensation to Diana, Princess of Wales’s chauffeur to settle a claim he was slandered by the disgraced broadcaster Martin Bashir.’
The Guardian, 14th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Social media platforms have been told to take action to stop pushing harmful content to children with algorithms, Ofcom has said.’
The Guardian, 8th May 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Ofcom has warned social media sites they could be banned for under-18s if they fail to comply with new online safety rules. The media regulator has published a children’s safety draft codes of practice, which requires social media firms to have more robust age-checking measures, and Ofcom boss Dame Melanie Dawes warned any company that broke them could have their minimum user age raised to 18.’
BBC News, 8th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Keynote speech by the Lady Chief Justice at the Society of Editors 25th anniversary conference.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 30th April 2024
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘Four presenters have begun legal action against the BBC on grounds of sex and age discrimination and equal pay.’
BBC News, 1st May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Hugh Grant has put civil costs on the public radar, in his latest thread on X (formerly Twitter) (via: @HackedOffHugh), concerning the settlement of his privacy claim against The Sun. In one out of a series of posts from the thread on April 17th 2024, Grant wrote, “I don’t want to accept this money or settle. I would love to see all the allegations that they deny tested in court,” and he goes on to write in a subsequent post in the thread: “But the rules around civil litigation mean that if I proceed to trial and the court awards me damages that are even a penny less than the settlement offer, I would have to pay the legal costs of both sides.”’
Gatehouse Chambers, 23rd April 2024
Source: gatehouselaw.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court is this week hearing an appeal over the discharge of reporting restriction orders (RROs) protecting the identity of medical professionals involved in the care of patients in respect of whom an application to withdraw treatment had been made.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th April 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Paedophiles convicted of serious sexual offences could lose parental rights over their children under a new law.’
BBC News, 17th April 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘ITV is considering taking paid ads from parties on its streaming platform where ban does not apply’
The Guardian, 14th April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted it was wrong to press on with a case against a news photographer arrested as he tried to lawfully take pictures at a crime scene.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Prosecutors have dropped what a judge called a “disturbing” case against a press photographer who was arrested while covering a breaking news story.’
BBC News, 8th April 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Five episodes of GB News programmes presented by Tory MPs were found by Ofcom to have broken broadcasting rules.’
The Independent, 18th March 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘New laws will see harmful content filmed inside prisons removed from social media platforms more quickly – shielding victims from further trauma and protecting prison security.’
Ministry of Justice, 4th March 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘Media watchdog Ofcom has ruled that Laurence Fox’s “misogynistic” comments about female journalist Ava Evans on Dan Wootton’s GB News show broke broadcasting rules which protect “viewers from offensive content”.’
The Independent, 4th March 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘FA (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] EWCA Civ 149 (22 February 2024). The Court of Appeal has held that the UT should have concluded that the FTT had failed to apply the current Iran country guidance cases to the appellant FA’s case, who was a Kurdish National of Iran who claimed to have left Iran illegally on foot, and claimed to have got married en route to the United Kingdom. He had entered the United Kingdom on 4 December 2019 and then claimed asylum. The SSHD rejected his claims for asylum and for humanitarian protection. The appeal was remitted to a different judge in the FTT for him to consider the question of risk to the appellant if he were returned to Iran. The Court of Appeal grappled with the two determinations at hand, i.e. the FTT determination and the UT determination which Elisabeth Laing LJ referred to as determination 1 and determination 2 during the course of her judgment. She touched on the effects of XX (PJAK – sur place activities – Facebook) Iran CG [2022] UKUT 23 (IAC), SSH and HR (Illegal Exit) Iran CG [2016] UKUT 308 (IAC), HB (Kurds) Iran CG [2018] UKUT 430 (IAC) and also BA (Demonstrators in Britain: Risk on Return) Iran CG [2011] UKUT 36 (IAC). The SSHD’s case was that FA admitted in his asylum interview that he was a supporter of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (“KDPI”) and not a member. The SSHD considered it strange that FA had not been introduced to the KDPI until he was 29 and considered that the answers to questions in the the asylum interview were inconsistent.’
EIN Blog, 26th February 2024
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘A complaint by Brewdog about a BBC documentary that highlighted allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the beer giant’s chief executive has been rejected by Ofcom.’
BBC News, 19th February 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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