“The High Court’s refusal to issue an injunction preventing the media from reporting an alleged affair footballer John Terry had with a team mate’s girlfriend is unlikely to change the course of privacy law, an expert said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
In re Guardian News and Media Ltd and others [2010] UKSC 1; [2010] WLR (D) 13
“Where individuals challenged freezing orders made against them under the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2006 and the Al-Qaida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2006 the general public interest in publishing a full report of the proceedings in which they were named justified curtailing their right to respect for their private and family lives.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 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 government is consulting the media and the judiciary after becoming ‘very concerned’ that super-injunctions, such as the double gagging order which was obtained by the England football captain John Terry but lifted last week, are being used too often.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“England captain John Terry emerged as the footballer who had obtained a gagging order preventing the publication of claims about his private life, after the high court overturned a superinjunction yesterday.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The radio presenter Jon Gaunt won his battle today to take the media regulator Ofcom to a judicial review over a live interview in which he called a councillor a ‘Nazi’.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The way Britain is governed has gone wrong and is in urgent need of reform, a group of former Whitehall chiefs has warned in a highly critical report.”
BBC News, 27th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Radio presenter claims Ofcom breached right to free speech by upholding complaints about on-air comments.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Pay TV company BSkyB has been told that it must follow the Competition Commission’s orders and sell over half of its stake in broadcaster ITV at a loss of around £500 million. The Court of Appeal backed the Commission’s ruling.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st January 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Juries are a fundamental pillar of our justice system. But many believe that jurors are now routinely accessing and distributing so much prejudicial information online, that the very integrity of the system is in danger.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In deciding whether or not the recommendation of the Competition Commission that a proposed merger should be prevented as contrary to the public interest, the Competition Appeal Tribunal was not required to exercise a greater intensity of judicial review than would be applied on a normal judicial review application. S 120(4) of the Competition Act 1998 required the appeal tribunal to apply the same principles as would be applied by a court on an application for judicial review. It would fly in the face of the section’s words if the tribunal, as a hyper-competent specialised tribunal, were required to undertake a more intensive review.”
WLR Daily, 21st January 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The court of appeal today ordered BSkyB to sell down its 17.9% stake in ITV.”
The Guardian, 21st January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Legislative proposals included in the Children, Schools and Families Bill should encourage media attendance at family court cases, the Ministry of Justice said today.”
Ministry of Justice, 21st January 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Lawyers who sue the media will see their fees cut by 90% under plans set out by the government today to bring down the cost of libel actions.”
The Guardian, 20th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Peaches Geldof, daughter of Bob Geldof, has accepted substantial, undisclosed libel damages over a newspaper claim that she had worked as a prostitute.”
BBC News, 12th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ofcom’s code on doorstepping public figures plays into the hands of corporate lawyers and stifles investigative reporting in the public interest.”
The Guardian, 11th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“News International has admitted it was forced to hand former News of the World journalist and convicted phone-hacker Clive Goodman a generous payoff because it failed to follow statutory procedures.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Sun newspaper has refused to name a top football manager it said it caught leaving a brothel. Privacy law experts say that the case underlines the strictness with which courts interpret the right to privacy of famous people.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th January 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“It could make for an interesting scenario: a construction worker, a cowboy, a traffic cop, a Native American chief, a sailor, Jamie Oliver, a leather queen, some lawyers and a judge – together in court.”
The Guardian, 18th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Internet-only publications will face the same regulations as newspapers for the first time under an extension to the powers of newspaper industry self-regulator body the Press Complaints Commission (PCC).”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th December 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Independent has helped win an important court ruling protecting members of the public who supply confidential information to the media.”
The Independent, 16th December 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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