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Published: 25.06.07 : Hold The Front Page - House of Lords Under Fire As Free Speech Loses Ground To Privacy
A TOP publisher has criticised the House of Lords for ducking its “constitutional duty” to clarify rapidly developing privacy law. Associated Newspapers’ allegation comes as a ... Read more »

Published: 25.06.07 : Newspaper Wins Fair Comment Argument In Libel Case
Freedom of expression for critics and commentators has been upheld by the Court of Appeal in an important ‘fair comment’ victory in a libel case. The case would have been a chilling... Read more »

Published: 12.06.07 : Sony - And The Battle Of Manchester Cathedral
Games creators, online authors and publishers, in fact everyone involved in the South West’s burgeoning IT industry, would do well to watch how the row between a Japanese electronics giant and ... Read more »

Published: 04.06.07 : Babies, Websites, and Libel
At first sight, a dispute between a baby guru living in Edinburgh and a parenting website based in Islington does not appear to have implications for the South West’s burgeoning IT industry,... Read more »

Published: 04.06.07 : Media Law Round Up
A recent case illustrates the risk journalists take if they embellish defamatory material from a ‘privileged’ source. The Irish edition of the Sunday Times reported comments by Democ... Read more »

Published: 17.05.07 : Hold The Front Page - How To Challenge Reporting Restrictions
Tactics for challenging reporting restrictions are back in the spotlight after a judge controversially gagged reports of a paedophile’s case at Croydon Crown Court. Judge Warwick McKinnon... Read more »

Published: 16.05.07 : Mumsnet Case Raises Issues Of Responsibility Over Blog Libel
Tony Jaffa, media specialist at Foot Anstey who represented Gina Ford, the baby care specialist, in her libel claim against Mumsnet, a parenting website, writes on the implications of the action, whi... Read more »

Published: 08.05.07 : Hold The Front Page - Media Law Round Up
There is simply nothing to discuss as far as another recent victory for privacy over free speech is concerned. That’s the stark view of the House of Lords Appeal Committee, which has rejec... Read more »

Published: 19.04.07 : Hold The Front Page - Da Vinci Code Cryptic Copyright Ruling Clarified
Clarity has been restored to an area of copyright law after the Court of Appeal’s ruling on Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Although the appeal court agreed with trial judge Mr Justic... Read more »

Published: 30.03.07 : Hold The Front Page - Confusion in Contempt - and Copyright Galore
There have been calls for a review of the contempt laws following disarray over publicity in the cash-for-honours investigation. On 5th March the Attorney General tried to obtain an injunction ag... Read more »

Published: 12.03.07 : Hold The Front Page - Protection For Reporter’s Source Upheld On Appeal
The “vital public interest” in protecting a journalist’s source was upheld by the Court of Appeal in investigative reporter Robin Ackroyd’s legal battle with Ashworth Security ... Read more »

Published: 27.02.07 : Writs Follow Adverts and Press Releases
Aggressive adverts and press releases comparing one business’s products and services with another’s are all the rage. In the cut-throat marketplace, major companies increasingly go ... Read more »

Published: 07.02.07 : Hold The Front Page - Open Justice Victory In Terrorism Case
The case of the first Islamic terrorist to be sentenced in the UK for a plot to commit mass murder of civilians, has resulted in an important victory for open justice. After Dhiran Barot pleade... Read more »

Published: 22.01.07 : Hold The Front Page - Festive Fizz Across The Board
Christmas and New Year were hectic for media law watchers, with developments on many fronts. The ‘Suffolk murders’ arrests saw the Attorney General issue a formal, if somewhat vague, ... Read more »

Published: 16.01.07 : Hold The Front Page - Another Pro-Privacy ruling from Their Lordships
A landmark Court of Appeal ruling (McKennitt v Ash) has confirmed that the press must tread carefully when revealing details about private lives of those who feature in their pages. It comes aft... Read more »

Published: 02.01.07 : Hold The Front Page - Media Law Round-Up
The media have enjoyed notable victories for press freedom in the last few weeks. The Law Lords breathed new life into the Reynolds defence of qualified privilege for “responsible journalism&rdq... Read more »

Published: 19.12.06 : Hold The Front Page - Recent Developments in Privacy
The hush of privacy has descended further with an adulterer winning a temporary injunction banning the betrayed husband from naming him in the media. Mr Justice Eady imposed the order after the ad... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Press Gazette Legal Update - Trade Marks and the Olympics
Press Gazette Legal Update - Trade Marks and the Olympics (30th June 2006) Download PDF Article (225k) ...
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Published: 27.09.06 : Western Morning News Legal Brief on Internet Libel
Western Morning News Legal Brief on Internet Libel (11th May 2006) Download PDF Article (377k) ...
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Published: 27.09.06 : The Risks of Booting Up and Clicking Mice
The Risks of Booting Up and Clicking Mice (PA Media Lawyer Online 24 March 2006) Download PDF Article (18k) ...
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