“A former Metropolitan police officer who had access to private information about wealthy Chelsea residents including the Duchess of Cambridge and Tetra Pak heir Hans Rausing has been jailed for two years for selling stories about them to the Sun.”
The Guardian, 5th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Reporting restrictions on proceedings concerning a life prisoner should be discharged since the public interest in allowing media organisations to publish reports outweighed the prisoner’s human rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 3rd June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Pressure groups have warned British retailers they could face legal action if they display magazines showing naked and near-naked images on their covers.”
BBC News, 27th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A coroner told the press ‘shame on all of you’ as he ruled that a primary school teacher had killed herself after her gender reassignment became national news.”
The Guardian, 28th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“With videos and pictures being posted online and tweeted hundreds of times what does it mean when a trial comes about?”
The Guardian, 24th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A model is suing the Sun and Scotland Yard in the first civil claim linked to alleged corrupt payments to police officers and public officials.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Some of the most prominent victims of phone-hacking have written to the culture secretary, Maria Miller, urging her to reject the royal charter proposed by the press industry, saying that it is unacceptable for ‘those responsible for the damage to our lives and the lives of others [to] seek to shrug off responsibility and once again write their own rulebook.’ ”
The Guardian, 24th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
AAA v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 554; [2013] WLR (D) 189
“Where a judge at first instance had carried out the careful balancing exercise required in respect of an individual’s right of privacy and a publisher’s right of freedom of expression, an appellate court should not intervene unless the judge had erred in principle, or reached a conclusion which was plainly wrong or outside the ambit of conclusions that could reasonably be reached.”
WLR Daily, 20th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re ITN News and others [2013] EWCA Crim 773; [2013] WLR (D) 187
“The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) had jurisdiction under section 159 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 to entertain an appeal against an order under section 46 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 prohibiting the reporting of any matter relating to a witness, even where the court was not otherwise concerned with any proceedings between the defendant at trial and the Crown or any issue arising from it.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Controversial plans to protect the identity of suspects arrested by police were in disarray last night after the Director of Public Prosecutions called for more ‘wriggle room’ to name suspects before they were charged.”
The Independent, 21st May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A key adviser to the Leveson report, the civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, has hit out against politicians and newspaper barons, accusing them of letting down the public over promises to set up a new press watchdog.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The public has a right to know that Boris Johnson had an extramarital affair with a woman who later gave birth to their daughter, the appeal court has ruled.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Police in England and Wales should not name arrested people until they are charged except in ‘clearly identified circumstances’ such as when there is a threat to life, new guidance says.”
BBC News, 20th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The need for sensation alone has placed Jimmy Tarbuck’s name in the press for being questioned regarding an alleged sexual offence dating back to the 1970s. Jimmy Tarbuck is one of a seemingly never-ending stream of household names being questioned regarding historic sexual offences. Jimmy Tarbuck has merely been questioned. We do not know what the evidence is against him but we know it is insufficient at present to sustain a criminal charge. Why then are we even aware of this story?”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 13th May 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The Sun on Sunday ran a front page ‘world exclusive’ last November headlined ‘I’m Fred West’s love child’.”
The Guardian, 13th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Newspaper owners have backed down on demands to have a veto over the board members of any new press regulator.”
BBC News, 10th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The home secretary has ordered a review by a former senior judge into the role police corruption had in shielding the murderers of a private detective found with an axe embedded in his head.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former Brighton-based police sergeant who sold a story to the Sun newspaper
has been jailed for 10 months.”
BBC News, 9th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An edition of BBC1’s Panorama has breached the Ofcom code after a man who was supposed to remain anonymous was identified by his friends.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“BT has won the right to take a competition regulator ruling that stopped BSkyB being forced to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 to rival TV services at a discount of up to 23% to the court of appeal.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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