“Rupert Murdoch’s News International may have to continue funding the legal defence for the convicted phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire, despite the company’s promise to cut off the funds that have so far allowed him not to name the News of the World executives who commissioned him.”
The Independent, 1st August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“EastEnders’ controversial cot death and baby swap storyline has been cleared by media regulator Ofcom after thousands of complaints.”
BBC News, 1st August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A joint publication of The President of the Family Division, the Judicial College and the Society of Editors.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 29th July 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd and News Group Newspapers Ltd have been found guilty of contempt of court for publishing potentially prejudicial coverage of a former suspect in the Joanna Yeates murder investigation at the start of this year which had the potential to impede the course of justice.”
Attorney General’s Office, 29th July 2011
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“A critic is free to hate a book but this ruling found Lynn Barber had a reckless disregard for the truth.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Senior lawyers at royal solicitors Harbottle & Lewis are ‘furious’ at the way they have been blamed by Rupert Murdoch and others in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, The Independent on Sunday has learned. They will meet the Metropolitan Police to explain their position ‘in the next few days’.
The Independent, 31st July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Chair will not seek to extend her three-year term, after criticism of her handling of the News of the World phone-hacking affair.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Eight national newspapers have made public apologies today to Christopher Jefferies for the libellous allegations made against him following the murder of Joanna Yeates. The titles – The Sun, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Record, Daily Mail, Daily Star, The Scotsman and Daily Express – have also agreed to pay him substantial libel damages, thought to total six figures.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“OPINION: Are you reading this at work? Are you sure you are not breaking copyright law by doing so? If OUT-LAW.COM copied most websites’ terms and conditions you probably would be, if the Court of Appeal is to be believed. Yesterday it said that the users of a clippings service infringed newspaper publishers’ copyrights when they clicked on links to view articles on web pages. But a fairly obscure spat over business information has the potential to derail much of the basis of online publishing.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Users of a clippings service must have a licence from newspaper publishers to click on links taking them to newspaper website pages to avoid infringing the publishers’ copyrights, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The end users of a commercial online media monitoring service who did not hold a web end-user licence from the publishers committed infringement of the publishers’ copyright in receiving and using the service.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Today’s Sun front page carries a single column panel, at the foot of the first column, that should be seen as something of a landmark – for the paper and for the Press Complaints Commission.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Opening his inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal, Lord Justice of Appeal Leveson said he will focus on the practices and ethics of the press, in relation to the public, police and politicians.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A policewoman who was forced out of her job after going on the TV show Total Wipeout while she was off sick, is now suing force chiefs.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of the Daily Telegraph, has been ordered to pay £65,000 in damages after losing a high court case for libel and malicious falsehood over a Lynn Barber book review.”
The Guardian, 26th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Celebrities encourage intrusion, and we have a right to know about anything that affects politicians’ ability to do their jobs.”
The Guardian, 26th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The high court has extended a gagging order obtained by a leading actor to prevent reporting of his ‘sexual relationship’ with a former escort girl.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there were a “vast array” of News of the World phone-hacking victims.”
The Independent, 26th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The legal firm that Rupert Murdoch accused of making a ‘major mistake’ in its part in the internal investigation into phone hacking is to be called before a parliamentary select committee to defend itself against allegations that they helped cover up the scandal.”
The Guardian, 21st July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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