“When the UK supreme court opened for business just over a year ago one of its most exciting innovations was that, for the first time in the UK, hearings would be filmed and recordings made available to broadcasters.”
The Guardian, 1st December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The end users of a commercial on-line 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, 29th November 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
ITV Broadcasting Ltd and others v TV Catch Up Ltd [2010] EWHC 3063 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 301
“For the purposes of s 20 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, there was no requirement that the mode of communication to the public of a broadcast had to itself have the characteristics of a broadcast.”
WLR Daily, 26th November 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The Press Complaints Commission, which oversees the newspaper industry’s editorial code, today found itself in the embarrassing position of formally apologising and paying damages for misleading remarks made by its chairman, Lady Buscombe.”
The Guardian, 26th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal has been ordered by a high court judge to reveal who instructed him to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages of public figures.”
The Guardian, 17th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A superinjunction preventing the naming of Take That’s Howard Donald has been lifted by the court of appeal in a case involving a former girlfriend.”
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Read the judgment lifting the superinjunction (PDF)
The Guardian, 16th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government has asked media regulator to assess the affect on media plurality of the proposal from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation that it take BSkyB private.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th November 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Former BBC presenter Miriam O’Reilly was warned ‘to be careful with those wrinkles when high definition comes in’ nine months before she was dropped from Countryfile by the BBC, a tribunal heard yesterday. Ms O’Reilly, 53, is suing the broadcaster for sex and age discrimination after losing her job when the rural affairs show was moved to a prime-time slot.”
The Independent, 5th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Reporters play an important role within the courts, but financial and time restraints mean they are more endangered than ever.”
The Guardian, 19th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government was wise to defer a decision on whether the media should be able to report family court hearings, according to a senior judge.”
BBC News, 19th October 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Reality television shows face curbs on their use of children amid concerns that young participants are being exploited by programme-makers.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The decision on whether to bring into force provisions to change the restrictions on media reporting of family court hearings, will be decided after the publication of the Family Justice Review’s final report next year.”
Ministry of Justice, 11th October 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A judge has explained his decision for refusing to ban a book revealing the identity of Top Gear’s The Stig.”
BBC News, 4th October 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Press watchdog censures writer over Sunday Times column in which he described TV presenter as a ‘dyke on a bike.’ ”
The Guardian, 17th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Newspaper Society has complained that the Children, Schools and Families Act has made legal cases covered by the Act less transparent because they are virtually unreportable.”
The Guardian, 16th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The BBC has learned that Ofcom will be asked to review News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB once a formal offer is made.”
BBC News, 15th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ofcom receives complaints that scene featuring hypnotised man chained to train tracks was dangerous.”
The Guardian, 15th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Pressure mounts on Andy Coulson, as MPs call on the powerful standards and privileges committee to summon witnesses such as Rupert Murdoch to give evidence.”
The Guardian, 9th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MPs are to hold an emergency debate later to discuss the allegations of phone hacking by journalists at the News of the World.”
BBC News, 9th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Celebrities who apply for gagging orders to stop the media from publishing details about their private lives have helped to boost privacy cases by nearly 50 per cent this year, new figures seen by The Independent have shown.”
The Independent, 8th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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