Case Summaries (all)

More to be done on Defamation
Date: 01 March 2012 - The Ministry of Justice has published a statement in response to the report of the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill last year...

Israel shuts down dovish radio station
Date: 20 November 2011 "Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station's operators said on Sunday...

Rights group concerned over Occupy media arrests (AP)
Date: 19 November 2011 "A human rights office for the Americas on Thursday criticized the arrest and assault of journalists during Occupy Wall Street protests in New York...

Case of Aquilina and Others v. Malta [Application no. 28040/08]
Date:17/06/2011 The applicants were the editor, court reporter, and printer of The Times of Malta newspaper...

De Haes and Gijsels v Belgium [1997] (Application No. 7/1996/626/809/1996/626/)
Date:09/06/2011 The case concerned an action for defamation brought on behalf of two magistrates, a judge and an Advocat-General against two journalists...

Editorial Board of Pravoye Delo and Shtekel v. Ukraine [Application no. 33014/05]
Date:09/06/2011 The applicants were the editorial board and the editor-in-chief of the Pravoye Delo newspaper in Odessa, Ukraine...

Grinberg v. Russia
Date:09/06/2011 The applicant published an article critical of the newly-elected Governor's treatment of journalists...

ALBERT CHENG AND LAM YUK WAH V. TSE WAI CHUN PAUL [2000] HKCFA 35
Date: 20/05/2011 ALBERT CHENG AND LAM YUK WAH V. TSE WAI CHUN PAUL [2000] HKCFA 35

Grinberg v Russia
Date:19/05/2011 In 2002 the Guberniya newspaper published a piece written and signed by the applicant...

Locles Roberto Jorge v. Arte Gráfico Editorial
Date:13/05/2011 Rogelio Garcia Lupo, a journalist, published two newspaper articles in December 1997 and January 1998, entitled 'The Court disqualified the expert of Zulema Yoma'…

Case and another v Minister of Safety and Security and Others; Curtis v Minister of Safety and Security and Others
Date:13/05/2011 Patrick Case, Inga Case and Stephen Roy Curtis were all charged with the contravention of section 2 of the Indecent or Obscene Photographic Matter Act, 37 of 1967, in 1993...

Mosley v. United Kingdom [2011] (Application No. 48009/08)
Date:10/05/2011 10th May 2011 Court: ECtHR Citation: 48009/08…

Stephens v West Australian Newspapers Ltd [1994] HCA 45
Date:10/05/2011 The plaintiffs, members of the Legislative Council of Western Australia and of its Standing Committee on Government Agencies, sue the defendant, publisher of the West Australian newspaper, for defamation...

Fantasy Enterprises CC t/a Hustler The Shop v Minister of Home Affairs (Namibia)
Date:06/05/2011 Year:1998 Court: High Court of Nambia. Fantasy Enterprises, run by Louis Nasilowski, Christine Jacoba Nasilowski and Rolf Schr?der, was a business dealing adult paraphernalia under such names as 'Hustler The Shop'…

Nationwide News PTY LTD v Wills, [1992] HCA 46
Date:05/05/2011 Names/ Parties: Nationwide News Pty...

Kudeshkina v. Russia
Date:05/05/2011 The applicant, Olga Kudeshkina, is a Russian national who was born in 1951 and lives in Moscow...

Steve Clark v. Grenada, Case 10.325
Date:04/05/2011 The case concerned a petition filed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on 31 March 1989, for the Commission to inquire and protest the attack on freedom of speech, press, and information, to Grenadian officials…

Citizens Giorgi Kipiani and Avtandil Ungiadze v Parliament of Georgia
Date:28/04/2011 Certain articles of the Law on Broadcasting and the Law on the Protection of Minors from Harmful Influence with the Constitution deprived citizens and legal persons of the right of access to court. …

Chavunduka and Choto v Minister of Home Affairs [200]
Date:28/04/2011 Zimbabwe Supreme Court…

South African Broadcasting Corporation Limited v the National Director of Public Prosecutions
Date:28/04/2011 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) had been refused permission by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to broadcast proceedings involving the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP)...

Meltex Ltd and Mesrop Movsesyan v. Armenia
Date:27/04/2011 The applicants are an independent broadcasting company established in 1995 with its registered office in Yerevan (Armenia), and its chairman who was born in 1950 and lives in Yerevan...

Attorney General (Vic), EX Rel Black v Commonwealth ('Dogs case') [1981] HCA 2
Date:26/04/2011 The Attorney General of the State of Victoria and other plaintiffs, taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Australia, sought to have a number of statutes of the Commonwealth Parliament declared constitutionally invalid …

Alejandra Marcela Matus Acuña et al. v Chile [2005] IACHR
Date:26/04/2011 Parties: Marcela Alejandra Matus Acuña et al...

Onyango Obbo & Anor v Attorney General [2004]
Date:21/04/2011 On 24th October 1997, Charles Onyango Obbo, Editor of Ugandan newspaper Monitor and Andrew Mujuni Mwenda, Senior Reporter of the newspaper, were jointly tried in the magistrates' court on two counts of the criminal offence of 'Publication of False News'…

Fatullayev v. Azerbaijan [2010]
Date:21/04/2011 The applicant, Fatullayev, is the founder and chief editor of two newspapers, the newspapers were widely known for regularly publishing articles harshly criticising the Government and various public officials...

Leung Kwok Huang and Others v. HKSAR [2005] HKCFA 40
Date:15/04/2011 The appellants did not comply with the statutory scheme provided for in the Public Order Ordinance Cap...

Kimel v. Argentina [2008]
Date:15/04/2011 Eduardo Kimel is a historian, journalist and writer; he has published several books on the political history of Argentina. Mr Kimel's book 'La Masacre de San Patricio' (the San Patricio Massacre)- 1989…

Mahmudov amd Agazade v Azerbaijan [2008] ECHR
Date:15/04/2011 The applicants are Azerbaijani nationals, an editor and a journalist for the newspaper, Müxalifat. The applicants' complaint related to their conviction conviction and sentencing…

Snyder v. Phelps et al [2011]
Date:12/04/2011 For almost 20 years the Westbro Baptist church has picketed the funerals of American Soldiers in order to communicate its belief that God hates America because of its tolerance of homosexuality. …

Muller and Others v Switzerland [1988] [ECHR] (Application Number 10757/84)
Date:12/04/2011 Muller was an artist who attended an open gallery event and painted a scene that included images of homosexuality and bestiality...

Judgement upon case of defamation [1966] (A) NO. 2472 [1969] JPSC 4 (25 JUNE 1969)
Date:08/04/2011 JUDGMENT UPON CASE OF DEFAMATION 1966 …

Novaya Gazeta v Voronezhe v. Russia
Date:07/04/2011 The applicant is the editorial board of the Novaya Gazeta v Voronezhe newspaper, a limited liability company under Russian law registered in Voronezh (Russia)...

Ricardo Canese v. Paraguay
Date:07/04/2011 Ricardo Canese, an industrial engineer, who regularly wrote and published articles on the Itaipú bi-national hydroelectric plant, made statements to the media about 'irregularities', including tax evasion, of the then Presidential Candidate Mr Juan Carlos Wasmosy…

Von Hannover v. Germany [2004] ECHR 294
Date:05/04/2011 The applicant was a member of the royal family of Monaco, a public figure without any connection to the functioning of the state. She had been trying since the early 1990s to prevent the publication of photographs of her private life in the tabloid press. …

Saaristo v Finland (Application Number 184/06)
Date:01/04/2011 The applicants were a journalist, the editor-in-chief and the publishing company of the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat...

Lautsi v Italy (Application no. 30814/06)
Date:18/03/2011 The claimant challenged the presence of crucifixes in the classrooms of state-funded schools...

July and SARL Liberation v France
Date:11/03/2011 On 19th October 1995, Judge Bernard Borrel was found assassinated in Djibouti, where he had been working for the Minister of Justice. The local authorities concluded that the Judge had committed suicide...

Gaunt -v- OFCOM and Liberty
Date:11/03/2011 The claimant Regina Gaunt, a radio presenter , formerly known for his aggressive style of interviewing sought judicial review of the respondent's finding (against the broadcaster) that a radio interview he had conducted breached the Broadcasting Code...

CIty of Renton v. Playtime Theaters
Date:10/03/2011 Playtime Theatres is a case decided by the 9th Circuit in 1984. The matter concerned the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance which restricted the location of sexually explicit businesses...

R v Labaye [2005]
Date:10/03/2011 The defendant was convicted of keeping a 'common bawdy house' for the 'practice of acts of indecency' under the Criminal Code and appealed...

Grayned v. City of Rockford
Date:04/03/2011 This is a United States Supreme Court case that was decided in 1972. After holding a civil rights demonstration outside of a school, the defendant among others were arrested and fined…

Attorney General v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWHC 418 (Admin)
Date:04/03/2011 The Sun and the Daily Mail published a photo on their website of a defendant who was on trial at the time...

Boldea v. Romania
Date:03/03/2011 Judgment: Strasbourg, 15th May 2007, Marian Boldea, professor at the University of Timi?oara, filed an action before the European Court of Human Rights alleging a violation of his right of freedom of expression by the Romanian Government…

Munim Abdul v DPP
Date:24/02/2011 At a parade of British soldiers, the claimants had shouted various things such as, 'burn in hell'and 'rapists'…

Kutlular v Turquie
Date:22/02/2011 Mehmet Kutlular, journalist and owner of the Yeni Asya Turkish newspaper, brought an action before the European Court of Human Rights against Turkey for alleged violation of Article 10 of the Convention...

New York v. Ferber
Date:22/02/2011 New York v. Ferber is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1982. The case concerned a man who was arrested for selling a video depicting boys masturbating...

Toronto Star v Canada
Date:17/02/2011 The case of Toronto Star v Canada (2010 SCC 21) concerns the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in which they upheld Article 517 of the Criminal Code of a federal law which bans the media from reporting evidence from bail hearings...

Schneider v. State
Date:16/02/2011 Schneider was a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939, addressing the right to distribute leaflets and pamphlets under the First Amendment...

Kandzhov v Bulgaria
Date:16/02/2011 Mr Aleksandar Bogdanov Kandzhov filed an action before the European Court of Human Rights, alleging that the Bulgarian Government acted in violation of article 10 of the ECHR. …

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000)
Date:15/02/2011 Petitioners are the Boy Scouts of America and its Monmouth Council (collectively, Boy Scouts). The Boy Scouts non-profit organisation insisits that homosexuality is against its values and…

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights, Inc., 547 U.S. 47 (2006)
Date:15/02/2011 Respondent Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc...

Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007)
Date:15/02/2011 At a school-sanctioned and school-supervised event, petitioner Morse, the high school principal, saw students unfurl a banner stating 'BONG HiTS 4 JESUS' which she regarded as promoting illegal drug use...

Handyside v The United Kingdom (1976) 1 EHRR 737
Date:11/02/2011 The applicant, Mr Handyside, was the proprietor of the publishing firm in London and had published the book 'The Little Red Schoolbook' which was intended for, and made available to, school-children of the age of twelve and upwards...

R v Keegstra
Date:11/02/2011 The Canadian criminal code made it an offence to communicate statements in pubic conversation wilfully promoting hatred against identifiable group...

Marques v Angola
Date:10/02/2011 Rafael Marques de Morais, an Angolan citizen, a journalist and Representative of the Open Society Institute in Angola filed a communication before the CCPR...

Crookes v Newton
Date:10/02/2011 The Appellant Wayne Crookes alleges that he has been defamed in various articles which first appeared on the Internet in 2005...

Lorillard Tobacco v. Reilly
Date:09/02/2011 Lorillard Tobacco was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 2001. The case concerned a regulation which banned the advertisement of tobacco products…

Guardian v. City of Westminster Magistrate?
Date:08/02/2011 Freedom of Expression: Right to access v Right to receive…

Brandenburg v. Ohio
Date:04/02/2011 In this 1969 United States Supreme Court case, the Court struck down an Ohio Criminal Syndicalism statute which punished 'advocat(ing) the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means …

Brandenburg v Ohio
Date:04/02/2011 The complainant, leader of the KKK group, was convicted under the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism statute for advocating the duty, necessity or propriety of crime, violence or terrorism as a means of …

Sonke Gender Justice Network v Malema
Date:03/02/2011 Sonke Gender Justice Network filed an action before the Equality Court...

Guardian v. City of Westminster Magistrate
Date:03/02/2011 Freedom of Expression: Right to access v Right to receive…

Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
Date:28/01/2011 While petitioner Milkovich was a high school wrestling coach, his team was involved in an altercation at a match with another high school's team...

Faurisson v France
Date:28/01/2011 The claimant, a university professor, gave an interview in a magazine in which he doubted the existence of gas chambers for extermination purposes at Auschwitz and in other Nazi concentration camps...

Gilled Gibbson v Khartoum North Criminal Court
Date:25/01/2011 Defendant Gilled Gibbson, a British primary school teacher in Liverpool, arrived in Sudan in August 2007 to take up a post at the exclusive Unity high school...

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
Date:21/01/2011 Respondent, a nationally known minister and commentator on politics and public affairs, filed a diversity action in Federal District Court against petitioners, a nationally circulated magazine and its publisher…

Mirror Group News v UK
Date:21/01/2011 MGN argued that by being obliged to pay almost 100% success fees on account of a conditional fee agreement (CFA), their right to free expression (Article 10) had been violated...

Cohen v. CA (403 U.S. 15)
Date:19/01/2011 Cohen v. CA is a case that was decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1971. The facts involved a defendant who was arrested for wearing a jacket that said…

Virginia State v Black (01-1107) 538 U.S. 343 [2003]
Date:14/01/2011 In Virginia v. Black et al. the Virginia Supreme Court found that Virginia's statute against cross burning is unconstitutional, but cross burning done with …

Mu Sochua v. Hun Sen
Date:13/01/2011 In 2009, Mu Sochua filed a defamation case against the Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen...

Central Hudson Gas
Date:13/01/2011 This case (judgement given in 1980) addressed the regulation of commercial speech...

De Reuck v Director of Public Prosecutions (2003)
Date:13/01/2011 D, film producer, charged under s 27(1) Films and Publications Act 1996, a provision relating to child pornography...

Dr Zakir Naik v (1) Secretary of State for the Home department (2) Entry Clearance Officer, Mumbai, India [2010]
Date:13/01/2011 Dr Zakir Naik is a national of India, leading Muslim writer, public speaker and television preacher and president of the Islamic Research Foundation...

Christian Legal Soc'y Chapter of the Univ. of Cal. v. Martinez
Date:12/01/2011 This case addressed whether the University of California's 'accept-all-comers policy' infringed upon the free speech and freedom of religion rights of the Christian Legal Society chapter guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.SA…

United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990)
Date:23/12/2010 This case involved a challenge to the federal 1989 Flag Protection Act, which forbade desecrating the American flag and was passed in response to the Court's decision in Texas v...

Nordisk Film & TV A/S v Denmark
Date:20/12/2010 On October 1999, the applicant, Nordisk Film TV A/S decided to produce a programme investigating paedophilia …

Lesnik v Slovakia
Date:17/12/2010 This case determined the boundary for criticism of public officials, and the interaction of defamation laws and the right to freedom of expression in Slovakia...

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
Date:17/12/2010 The 1989 decision is a seminal case concerning freedom of speech and expression in the United States...

MacKay & BBC Scotland v The United Kingdom
Date:10/12/2010 In September 2004, the trial of two men accused of drug offences in the High Court of Glasgow was stayed after it was discovered that police officers and prosecutors may have overheard conversations between the accused and his legal representation…

Regina on the application of Philip James Woolas v The Parliamentary Election Court
Date:10/12/2010 This was the judicial review against a decision of the Election Court to void Phil Woolas' return as MP for the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency…

White v. Sweden
Date:10/12/2010 The case concerns two main evening newspapers in Sweden, Expressen and Aftonbladet...

Joseph v. Spiller
Date:08/12/2010 In this case, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom considered the application of the defense of fair comment in defamation cases...

Murphy v Ireland
Date:07/12/2010 An Irish Pastor working for the Irish Faith Centre submitted an advertisement to an independent, local commercial radio station for transmission...

Féret v. Belgium
Date:06/12/2010 The case concerned the chairman of the Belgian party 'Front National', Mr David Féret...

Romano v Steelcase Inc.
Date:06/12/2010 The defendant, Steelcase, sought an order to be allowed access to the plaintiff's current and historical Facebook and …

Austin & Anon v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Date:03/12/2010 This was a case arising from the 2001 May Day protests...

Uson Ramirez v. Venezuela
Date:03/12/2010 The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights presented a claim beforte de Inter-American Court (The Court) referring to the filing of a criminal action before the military court due to the crime of Slander against the National Armed Forces…

Raichinov v Bulgaria
Date:02/12/2010 At the meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council, the applicant called the Bulgarian Prosecutor-General 'unclean'…

Naik v. The Secretary of State
Date:02/12/2010 This case concerned the exclusion of Dr Zakir Naik, an Islamic preacher, from entering the United Kingdom...

Phillips v News Group, Mulcaire and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Date:01/12/2010 These proceedings followed the arrest of Mr Mulcaire who was sentenced to six months imprisonment in respect of various incidents where he hacked into mobile telephones messaging systems of several people...

Theophanous v. Herald & Weekly Times Ltd. and Anor.
Date:26/11/2010 The petitioner sued the defendant newspaper for publishing a letter by a co-defendant, shortly before an expected election, questioning the capacity of the petitioner as an MP...

Aleksey Petrov v. Bulgaria
Date:26/11/2010 This case concerned the application of Mr Aleksey Petrov, a Bulgarian national, to have the European Court of Human Rights review a decision by Bulgaria's courts rejecting the criminal defamation complaints …

Société de conception de presse et d'édition et Ponson v. France
Date:26/11/2010 In this case, the applicants were a French company incorporated under French law called Société de Conception de Presse et d'Edition and its publication director, Gérard Ponson...

Chee Siok Chin and Others v Minister for Home Affairs and Another
Date:26/11/2010 This was a case on the freedom of assembly in Singapore...

Ntuli v Donald
Date:23/11/2010 On 26 April 2010 Eady J granted an anonymised claimant an injunction restraining an anonymised defendant from doing specified but unpublishable things and further restraining the defendant and others from publishing …

A v Norway
Date:22/11/2010 The ECtHR held that a Norwegian court failed to strike a fair balance between the applicant's Article 8 right to respect for private life and the news …

Oberschlick v. Austria
Date:19/11/2010 Mr Oberschlick, a journalist in Vienna, was the editor of the periodical Forum...

Ricardo Canese v. Paraguay
Date:18/11/2010 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights filed an application with the Inter-American Court against the State of Paraguay arising out of a petition filed by Mr Ricardo Canese...

Review Publishing Co Ltd and Another v Lee Hsien Loong and Another Appeal
Date:17/11/2010 This was a case on defamation in Singapore...

Feldek v Slovakia
Date:12/11/2010 Feldek published a poem on the change of leadership in Slovakia in a newspaper, which included reference to 'a member of the...

Aydin Tatlav v. Turkey
Date:11/11/2010 Mr Erdogan Aydin Tatlav, a Turkish journalist, was convicted of profanation of Islam...

Tristan Donoso v Panama
Date:09/11/2010 A private telephone conversation between lawyer Tristán Donoso and his client, Mr...

City of Ladue v. Gilleo
Date:08/11/2010 This case concerns the constitutionality of laws restricting the display of political signs on a private homeowner's property, under the First Amendment of the USA…

Hickey & Anor v Sunday Newspapers Ltd
Date:08/11/2010 The plaintiff, Ruth Hickey, is the partner of David Agnew, the former husband of Adele King (better known as 'Twink'), a popular Irish entertainer...

New York Times Co. v. United States
Date:08/11/2010 This 1971 case concerned the constitutionality of claimed executive authority to prevent the publication of classified information in newspaper publications, under the First Amendment of the USA…

Robert Elwyn James Watkins v Philip James Woolas
Date:07/11/2010 This was a case under sections 106 and120 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (RPA 83)...

Kausea v Minister of Home Affairs
Date:05/11/2010 In a broadcast panel discussion on affirmative action a policeman expressed views critical of the Police Force in Namibia, and was charged under a regulation that makes it an offence for any member of the police to 'comment unfavourably in public …

Dupuis and others v France
Date:05/11/2010 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in a judgment of 7 June 2007 that the French authorities violated the freedom of expression of two journalists and a publisher...

López-Álvarez V. Honduras
Date:02/11/2010 In this case, the Inter- American Commission of Human Rights submitted a petition to the Court to decide if Honduras had violated the Right to Humane Treatment, the Right to Personal Liberty, the Right to a Fair Trial…

BCGEU v. British Columbia
Date:01/11/2010 BCGEU v. British Columbia is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada on the right to picket as a freedom of expression protected by…

Metropolitan International Schools Limited v (1) Designtechnica Corporation (2) Google UK Limited (3) Google Inc
Date:01/11/2010 On 1 May 2009 permission was granted to the Claimant to serve proceedings outside this jurisdiction on the first and third Defendant...

Thoma v. Luxembourg
Date:29/10/2010 In a judgment of 29 March 2001, the European Court of Human Rights once again recognised the importance of journalistic freedom in reporting on matters of public interest...

Lindon, Otchakovsky-Laurens and July v. France
Date:29/10/2010 In August 1998, the publishing company P.O.L published a novel called Le Procès de Jean-Marie Le Pen…

Egeland v Norway
Date:28/10/2010 A state was justified in restricting the right to freedom of expression by imposing a criminal sanction on members of the press who photographed a convicted person leaving court, …

G A Moonen v Film and Literature Board of Review
Date:28/10/2010 The Film and Literature Review Board of New Zealand banned the possession and sale of a book called The Seventh Acolyte Reader and various photographs, which contained nine stories which described sexual activity between men and boys under the age of 16...

Attorney-General of Singapore v Tan Liang Joo John and Others
Date:28/10/2010 2009, this was a case about contempt of court...

Alekseyev v Russia
Date:25/10/2010 This case concerned complaints by a Russian gay-right activist about repeated rejections by the Moscow authorities to his request to organise gay-pride parades...

Case of Kankanamge v. Sri Lanka
Date:22/10/2010 Since 1993 the author, a journalist and editor of the newspaper Ravaya, had been indicted several times for allegedly having defamed high State party officials...

Hachette Filipacchi Associes (Paris Match) v. France
Date:21/10/2010 The French weekly magazine 'Paris Match' issued an article in February 1998 containing a picture of the murdered Prefect of Corsica, Claude Erignac...

The Queen on the application of Binyam Mohamed v the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Date:21/10/2010 This case illustrates the courts' current difficulty in reconciling the freedom of expression and national security...

Petrenco v. Moldova
Date:21/10/2010 This case concerned Anatol Petrenco, a professor of history. In 2002, the official government newspaper published an article criticising Mr Petrenco…

Case of Saaristo and Others v. Finland
Date:21/10/2010 This case concerns the right to privacy of individuals involved in politics...

Advisory Opinion OC-5/85 requested by the Government of Costa Rica
Date:21/10/2010 By a note of July 8, 1985, the Government of Costa Rica submitted an advisory opinion request to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights relating to the interpretation of Articles 13 and 29 of the American Convention on Human Rights…

Metropolitan Ordinance Case 1960 (A) No.112
Date:15/10/2010 The Metropolitan Ordinance Case was heard before the Japanese Supreme Court in 1960. It concerned an appeal by the Public Prosecutor against the acquittal in an earlier case of an alleged violation of an ordinance which required permits to be obtained for public meetings, parades and demonstrations…

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Date:15/10/2010 The 1964 decision is a seminal case concerning freedom of the press in the United States...

Radio Twist v Slovakia
Date:15/10/2010 Radio Twist is a radio company that was convicted for broadcasting a recorded conversation between the State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice and the Deputy Prime Minister...

Citizens United v Federal Election Commission
Date:15/10/2010 This case concerned a programme, Hilary, which had been paid for and produced by Citizens United and which was critical of then Senator Hilary Clinton...

Case of Claude-Reyes et al. v. Chile
Date:14/10/2010 In 1998, Marcel Claude Reyes, Sebastián Cox Urrejola and Arturo Longton Guerrero requested information from the Foreign Investment Committee on the forestry company Trillium and the Río Condor Project, about a deforestation project to be executed in Chile…

Lange v Australian Broadcasting Commission
Date:08/10/2010 Lange v Australian Broadcasting Commission was a High Court of Australia case that further refined the scope of the implied freedom of political communication in the Australian Constitution, particularly with regards to defamation law...

Turgay and others v. Turkey
Date:08/10/2010 In January 2008, a Turkish Court suspended for one month the publications of two weekly Turkish newspapers, alleging that these newspapers contained propaganda supporting the crimes of a terrorist organization...

DFT v. TFD
Date:08/10/2010 This case concerned a blackmail attempt by a woman, the defendant, who had threatened to make public information about a sexual relationship with the claimant unless he paid her a substantial bribe...

Herrera Ulloa v. Costa Rica
Date:06/10/2010 The facts submitted before the Court by the Commission concerned violations alleged to have been committed by the Costa Rican State by virtue of a 12 November 1999 conviction...

Hustler Magazine, Inc. et al. v. Jerry Falwell
Date:05/10/2010 In this case, the Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether the intentional infliction of emotional distress by a publication could be sanctioned by an award of damages…

Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth (ACTV)
Date:01/10/2010 This 1992 case was pivotal in establishing an implied right of political communication based on provisions of the Australian Constitution, which remains the only protection relating to the freedom of expression currently acknowledged in Australia...

PALAMARA-IRIBARNE V. CHILE
Date:01/10/2010 Palamara-Iribarne, a retired Chilean Navy officer, was a civil servant hired as contractor by the Chilean Navy in the city of Punta Arenas...

Viacom v You Tube
Date:01/10/2010 This case arose out of a copyright dispute between the Plaintiffs, Viacom and the Football Association Premier League Limited, and the Defendants, YouTube and Google...

Esso v. Greenpeace
Date:01/10/2010 In this case, two constitutional principles were in conflict: the principle of freedom of expression and the principle of ownership over tangible assets such as trademark...

Lopez v Candaele
Date:24/09/2010 This case was an appeal against a preliminary injunction preventing the Los Angeles City College (LACC) from enforcing the the District sexual harassment policy …

Kenedi v Hungary
Date:24/09/2010 Mr. János Kenedi, a historian, specialised in the functioning of secret services of dictatorships, comparative studies of the political police forces of totalitarian regimes and the functioning of Soviet-type States…

Zurcher v Stanford Daily
Date:24/09/2010 A student newspaper and staff members (the respondents) brought an action against the petitioners, who were the law enforcement and district attorney personnel...

Court of Justice of the European Communities [1991] Case C-288/89
Date:17/09/2010 Reference to the Court under Article 234 EC by the Raad van State (Netherlands) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings before that court between Stichting Collectieve Antennevoorziening Gouda and others and Commissariaat voor de Media…

Dink v Turkey
Date:15/09/2010 An application was brought to the ECHR on behalf of six Turkish nationals: F'rat Dink, his wife, his brother, and his three children…

Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. The Netherlands
Date:14/09/2010 The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) unanimously held that requiring the applicant to provide material disclosing confidential journalistic sources to the public prosecutor was …

Cox v. Turkey
Date:08/09/2010 Ms. Norma Jeanne Cox, a United States citizen, was deported and banned from re-entering Turkey due to opinions she had expressed to her students…

Bartnicki v Vopper [2001] 532 U.S
Date:06/09/2010 The petitioners in this case were Gloria Bartnicki, the chief negotiator of the Wyoming Valley West High School and Anthony Kane, former president of the local union...

Rekvényi v Hungary
Date:06/09/2010 The case concerned amendments made to the Hungarian Constitution that prohibited members of the army and police …

Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General)
Date:03/09/2010 In this landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Canada the court struck down Bill 101 of the 'Charter of the French Language' a law restricting the use of commercial signs written in languages other than French...

Goodwin v the United Kingdom
Date:02/09/2010 Mr William Goodwin (the applicant) was a British journalist working for an engineering industry magazine...

Mwenda and Eastern Africa Media Institute v Attorney-General of Uganda
Date:01/09/2010 Constitutional Court of Uganda-Mwenda had been charged with the offences of promoting opposition of the government (sedition) and promoting sectarianism after criticising the President of Uganda on a radio show…

Re Guardian News and Media Ltd and Others [2010] UKSC 1
Date:31/08/2010 A, K, M, G and Y had each been designated by the HM Treasury under the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2006, as there was suspicion that they had facilitated acts of terrorism...

Re British Broadcasting Corporation [2009] UKHL 34
Date:26/08/2010 This case involved the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) seeking to have an order lifted, which forbade the broadcast of the proper name of any person or place which would lead to the identification of the Defendant...

Campbell v MGN Ltd
Date:26/08/2010 The model, Naomi Campbell, was photographed leaving a drugs clinic...

Rice v. Paladin Press Enterprises
Date:24/08/2010 In 1993, hitman James Perry murdered three people after following instructions provided by two books published by Paladin Enterprises…

Miller v California
Date:23/08/2010 The appellant owner a large mail order business for sexually explicit material…

Vogt v Germany
Date:19/08/2010 Mrs Dorothea Vogt, a German national, was a teacher in a State secondary school, she was suspended for breach of the duty of political loyalty ...

R.A.V v City of St Paul
Date:18/08/2010 Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Minnesota, the petitioner, a teenager, andseveral friends, allegedly set fire to a homemade cross on the lawn of an African American family…

Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community School District
Date:18/08/2010 Three public school pupils (including Tinker) were suspended from school for wearing black armbands in protest against US government policy in Viet Nam...

Berezovsky v Russian Television [2010] EWHC 476 (QB)
Date:17/08/2010 The claimant brought an action against the defendants in relation to defamatory comments made against him relating to his alleged involvement in the death of Alexander Litvinenko in London, which were expressed by way of a broadcast by the first defendant...

Reynolds v Times Newspaper Ltd
Date:17/08/2010 The appellant in this case was Mr.Reynolds, the former Taoisearch (Prime Minister) of Ireland and the defendants were Times Newspaper Ltd…

Perry v Schwarzenegger
Date:17/08/2010 A federal judge in California ruled that 'Proposition' a measure approved by the USA states' voters in November 2008 to ban marriage for same-sex couples, is unconstitutional...

Holder v Humanitarian Law Project
Date:16/08/2010 Human rights activists working with members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) challenged a provision of the USA Patriot Act which outlaws 'material support' to 'foreign terrorist organisations'…

Holocaust Denial Case, Germany [1994]
Date:10/08/2010 The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany consideredwhether a measure contained in the Assemblies Act that permitted the prohibition of meetings in which things are likely to be said which constitute criminal violations, constituted a violation of the right to freedom …

HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Date:10/08/2010 The applicants, J and T, from Iran and Cameroon respectively, denied asylum in the United Kingdom, appealed a Court of Appeal decision that held they the pair could reasonably be expectedly to 'live discretely' upon their return to the original countries, to hide their homosexuality and…

Kokkanakis v Greece
Date:03/08/2010 Mr Minos Kokkinakis, a retired businessman of Greek nationality, was born into an Orthodox family at Sitia (Crete) in 1919, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness in 1936, he was arrested more than sixty times for proselytism…

Schmidberger [2003]
Date:02/08/2010 This case saw the European Court of Justice (ECJ) balancing the fundamental internal market free movement of goods with the right to freedom of expression. …

Lange v Aktinson (2000) 8BHRC 500
Date:02/08/2010 The appellant was the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, claiming that the respondents had written and published an article criticising his attention, commitment and focus, industry and responsibility as Prime Minister...

Kulis v Poland [2008] [ECHR]
Date:27/07/2010 Kulis v Poland Application No...

Irving v Penguin Books Ltd [2000] EWHC QB 115
Date:26/07/2010 Historian David Irving brought proceedings for defamation against Professor Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, respectively the author and publisher of a book entitled 'Denying the Holocaust'…

Gitlow v. People of the State of New York
Date:26/07/2010 Benjamin Gitlow was accused of criminal anarchy in violation of a New York statute that defines criminal anarchy as 'the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force or violence, or by …

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
Date:21/07/2010 United States Supreme Court - 1997. The constitutionality of two provisions in the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) was challenged by several litigants on grounds of being overbroad and vague...

Flood v Times Newspaper Ltd
Date:21/07/2010 In June 2006 Detective Sergeant Flood sued the British Times Newspaper for libel following publication of an article entitled 'Detective accused of taking bribes from Russian exiles'…

Trustco Group International Limited v Shikongo (Case SA 8/2009)
Date:19/07/2010 The Supreme Court of Namibia had to consider the compatibility of Article 21(a) of the Namibian Constitution 'all persons shall have the right to: (a) freedom of expression...

Luisiana Rios and Others v The Republic of Venezuela [IACHR]
Date:19/07/2010 All of the victims were journalists or employees of the media who were connected with Radio Caracas Televisión network (RCTV) and who in the performance of their work of seeking, receiving and imparting information, were the object of several acts of aggression…

Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slanton
Date:19/07/2010 Two movie theatres in Atlanta, Georgia were accused of showing two obscene films in violation of a Georgia statute that prohibited obscenity...

Yahoo! Inc v La Ligue Contre le racisme et L'antisemitisme [2006]
Date:19/07/2010 In 2000 La Ligue Contre le Racisme et l'antisemitisme (the League Against Racism and Anti-semitism) brought a case against the internet service provider Yahoo!…

Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd. and Others
Date:19/07/2010 The UK House of Lords held that a local authority could not bring an action for damages for libel in respect of two newspaper articles that had questioned the propriety of investments made for its superannuation fund...

Jameel v Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl
Date:13/07/2010 Mr Jameel was the general manager of a Saudi Arabian trading company who sued the Wall Street Journal following the publication of an article which asserted that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority were monitoring the bank accounts of certain individuals and companies, at the request of the American government…

Irwin Toy Ltd. v. Attorney General of Quebec [1989]
Date:12/07/2010 In this case the Supreme Court of Canada set out the principles and values underlying the country's protection of freedom of expression. …

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
Date:12/07/2010 The Appellant, a Jehovah's Witness, was convicted in municipal court for violating a New Hampshire law that says 'No person shall address any offensive, derisive or annoying word to any other person who is lawfully in any street or other public place, nor call him'…

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition [USA]
Date:12/07/2010 This case addressed whether the provisions of the USA Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 concerning the shipment, distribution, receipt, reproduction, sale, or possession of any visual depiction that appears to be of a minor engaging in sexually explicit…

Case of Mariapori v Finland
Date:06/07/2010 The applicant, a Finnish tax adviser, had given evidence for a defendant who was convicted of tax fraud...

Fatullayev v. Azerbaijan (Application no 40984/07) [ECrtHR]
Date:13/05/2010 Azerbaijan guilty of wrongfully sentencing journalist to prison…

Le Pen v. France (application no. 18788/09)
Date:10/05/2010 penalty imposed on Jean-Marie Le Pen for statements about Muslims in France …

Mosley v U.K. Submissions of GNM Ltd
Date:07/04/2010 These submissions are made by permission granted by the President of the Chamber, under Rule 44 of the Rules of Court, to address the general principles involved in the solution of the case...

British Chiropractic Association v. Singh
Date:07/04/2010 The claimant the British Chiropractic Association (the BCA) is a company limited by guarantee...

Wojtas-Kalete v Poland
Date:11/02/2010 The applicant was a journalist employed by Telewizja Polska Spolka Akcjna (TVP), the Polish public television company...

Prubova v Russia
Date:05/02/2010 The applicant was a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper D.S.P...

Romanenko and others v. Russia
Date:12/11/2009 The Russian court found a violation of freedom of expression where a newspaper had been convicted for publishing a statement that criticized public bodies...

Manole and Others v. Moldova
Date:12/11/2009 This involves several (former) employees of the Moldovan public broadcaster who complained about lack of independence of that institution, and that they were ordered by senior management not to criticize government policy on several points...

The Prosecutor v. Ferdinand Nahimana, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, Hassan Ngeze
Date:04/11/2009 This case concerns three men brought to trial for crimes against humanity in Rwanda due mainly to their ownership, publication and advocacy of messages in the media...

Islamic Unity Convention v Independent Broadcasting Authority
Date:30/10/2009 A radio broadcaster hosted a holocaust denier, and was brought before the High Court for violating a clause in the Code of Conduct for Broadcasting services...

Kauesa v Minister of Home Affairs and Others 1994
Date:30/10/2009 Namibia- A member of the police force had commented on a panel broadcast on television on racism, affirmative action and corruption within government bodies...

Islamic Unity Convention v Independent Broadcasting Authority
Date:16/10/2009 A radio broadcaster hosted a holocaust denier, and was brought before the South African High Court for violating a clause in the Code of Conduct for Broadcasting services...

Kauesa v Minister of Home Affairs and Others 1994
Date:16/10/2009 Nambia- A member of the police force had commented on a panel broadcast on television on racism, affirmative action and corruption within government bodies...

The Prosecutor v. Ferdinand Nahimana, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, Hassan Ngeze (aka The Media Trial) [2003]
Date:13/10/2009 Rwanda- rather than a case about protection of the freedom of expression, this case examined, for the first time since Nuremburg, responsibilities of the media when it is used to violate human rights...

Dr. Eggi Sudjana, SH., M.Si., Pandapotan Lubis
Date:13/10/2009 The Constitutional Court found several provisions of the Indonesian criminal code in violation of the Constitution's guarantee of the right to freedom of expression...

Title Too Long
Date:13/10/2009 The case involved a Constitutional challenge to several provisions of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) of 2002, which governs accreditation of journalists in Zimbabwe...

Case of Vereniging Weekblad Bluf! v. The Netherlands
Date:04/06/2009 Vereniging Weekblad is an association based in Amsterdam and at the material time it published a weekly called Bluf! for a left-wing readership...

Case of Bergens and Others v Norway
Date:04/06/2009 Bergens Tidende, the largest regional daily newspaper of the Norwegian west coast, after having been contacted by several women who had undergone cosmetic surgery at Dr...

Case of Schopfer v Switzerland
Date:29/05/2009 The Lucerne Bar's Supervisory Board initiated disciplinary proceedings against Mr Schöpfer as they believed that his conduct raised certain ethical questions, relating in particular to the need for discretion with regard to pending proceedings and to covert publicity...

Castells v Spain
Date:29/05/2009 Mr Miguel Castells, a Spanish lawyer, who was also a senator, published an article entitled Insultante Impunidad (Outrageous Impunity)...

Vogt v Germany
Date:22/05/2009 Mrs Dorothea Vogt, who was a secondary-school teacher in Lower Saxony, Germany, and also a member of the German Communist Party had an assessment report drawn in 1981 which described her work as entirely satisfactorily...

Turhan v Turkey
Date:22/05/2009 Mr Mehmet Talat Turhan is the author of a book titled 'Extraordinary War, Terror and Contra Guerrilla' …

Tammer v Estonia
Date:13/05/2009 Estonian national and journalist, Mr Enno Tammer, conducted an interview with Mr Ülo Russak, another journalist who worked with Ms Laanaru on her memoirs, but after a controversy was banned by court order from publishing them or claiming authorship for them...

Bowman v UK
Date:12/05/2009 Mrs Phyllis Bowman, a British citizen, was executive director of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC), an organisation which opposed abortion and human embryo experimentation...

Tolstoy Miloslavsky v the United Kingdom
Date:08/05/2009 Count Nikolai Tolstoy Miloslavsky, a British citizen, wrote a pamphlet entitled 'War Crimes and the Wardenship of Winchester College', which was circulated by Mr Nigel Watts to parents, boys, staff and former members of the school as well as to Members of Parliament…

Du Roy and Malaurie v France
Date:05/05/2009 Mr Albert Du Roy, editor of the weekly magazine 'Evénement du Jeudi' published an article with the headline 'Sonacotra: the Left puts its house in order' …

Wille v Liechtenstein
Date:27/04/2009 Mr Herbert Wille, the Head of the Liechtenstein Administrative Court, gave a public lecture at the Liechtenstein-Institut on the Nature and Functions of the Liechtenstein Constitutional Court on 16 February 1995...

HKSAR v Ng Kung Siu and another
Date:22/04/2009 Ng Kung Siu and another had carried defaced national and regional flags in a peaceful demonstration organised by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China...

Steur v the Netherlands
Date:14/04/2009 Mr Peter M...

Constantinescu v Romania
Date:09/04/2009 In 1993, Mr Constantinescu, as representative of the union, took out a summons against three former members of the union, seeking an order, under Articles 998 and 999 of the Civil Code governing civil liability, to return to the union 170, 000 Romanian lei …

Ivcher Bronstein v Peru
Date:09/04/2009 Baruch Ivcher Bronstein, a former Israeli national who renounced his Israeli nationality to take on the Peruvian nationality, was a majority shareholder as well as director and president of Channel 2-Frecuencia Latina of the Peruvian television network...

Appleby and others v. the United Kingdom
Date:03/04/2009 The town centre of Washington, known as the 'Galleries', was originally build by a corporation set up by the government of the UK...

Weber v Switzerland [1990]
Date:02/04/2009 Franz Weber, a Swiss journalist, filed a complaint against R.M. for defamation...

Case of Jerusalem v. Austria
Date:02/04/2009 Susanne Jerusalem gave a speech as a member of the Municipal Council alleging that two associations - IPM and VPM were sects which had a totalitarian character and showed fascist tendencies…

Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands (no. 38224/03)
Date:01/04/2009 The company complained of having been compelled to hand over a CD-ROM that could reveal the identity of journalistic sources who, on the promise of anonymity, had provided information about an illegal street car race…

Human rights files, No. 18 (revised): case law concerning Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Date:01/04/2009 Document summarizes and comments on cases decided by the ECHR concerned with freedom of expression(Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights)...

Thorgeir Thorgeirson v Iceland
Date:05/03/2009 The case concerns the right to freedom of expression in article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights...

Bladet Tromso and Stensaas v. Norway
Date:05/03/2009 A Norwegian freelance reporter was appointed seal hunting inspector on board a seal hunting vessel, his reports of inhumane and illegal conduct aboard …

The Observer and Guardian v. the United Kingdom
Date:02/03/2009 The applicants complained of interlocutory injunctions imposed by English courts restraining the applicants from publishing information contained in the book 'Spycatcher' written by Peter Wright, …

FIJI vs. Gardner and Rika
Date:04/02/2009 This document outlines the judgement of Netani Vakacegu Rika, Editor in Chief of Fiji Times Limited and Rex Frederick Gardner, as the Chief Executive Officer of Fiji Times Limited and acting publisher of The Fiji Times, who pleaded guilty to contempt of scandalising the High Court of Fiji and three of its judges...

SRTV v. Moldova
Date:30/01/2009 The applicant, a Romanian public television company claimed a breach of the right to impart information under Article 10 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No...

Gavrilovici v. Moldova
Date:29/01/2009 The applicant claimed an infringement on his rights to be free from inhumane and degrading treatment, a fair trial, and freedom of expression under Articles …

MGN LTD v. the United Kingdom
Date:26/01/2009 The applicant claimed a disproportionate interference with the rights to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the Convention as a consequence of a decision of the House of Lords that …

Petrina v. Romania
Date:06/01/2009 In this case, Liviu Petrina was reported to be a member of the former Romanian Communist State Security Services by two journalists, on a TV show and in two newspaper articles in 1997...

Pfeifer v. Austria
Date:06/01/2009 In this case, the applicant, a journalist editor of the magazine of the Jewish community in Vienna, had written an article which criticised a previous article by a university professor...

Case of London, Otchakovsky-Laurens and July v. France
Date:28/11/2008 The three applicants (respectively, a writer, the chairman of the board of directors of the publishing company P.O.L., and the publication director of the newspaper Libération) were found guilty of defamation …

Case of Stoll v. Switzerland
Date:28/11/2008 In this case, a Swiss citizen had been convicted for publishing an article disclosing 'secret official deliberations' about a 'strategy plan' drafted by the Swiss Ambassador to the United States, Carlo Jagmetti...

Case of Rumyana Ivanova V Bulgaria
Date:28/11/2008 In this case the applicant, a Bulgarian citizen, alleged in the European Court of Human Rights that her conviction for having written a newspaper article was in violation of her right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights...

Case of Alithia Publishing Company LTD & Constantinides v. Cyprus
Date:28/11/2008 In this case the European Court of Human Rights considered the conviction of two applicants, Alithia Publishing Company and the publisher of the daily morning newspaper Alithia, for defamation by the authorities of Cyprus...

Soulas and others v France
Date:28/11/2008 In this case the two French applicants, Mr Soulas and Mr Faye (the director of a publishing house and a writer respectively), were convicted of incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence, following the publication of a book in which Mr Faye declared that the Western civilization was not compatible with Islam and advocated a war of ethnic conquest...

Leroy v France
Date:28/11/2008 In this case a Mr Leroy, French cartoonist for the magazine Ekaitza, and the director of this magazine, were respectively convicted by the French authorities for the crimes of apology of terrorism and complicity in apology of terrorism...

Flux v Moldova
Date:28/11/2008 In this case, the applicant newspaper, Flux, was convicted of defamation by the Moldavian authorities following the publication of an article in which it quoted an anonymous letter that criticised the situation at the Spiru Haret High School...

Constitutional Rights Project, Civil Liberties Organization and Media Rights Agenda v. Nigeria
Date:25/11/2008 In this case, the proscription of certain publications and the registration rendered obligatory for all newspapers in Nigeria, with a retroactive effect and a complete discretion given to the Newspaper Registration Board, were deemed to constitute a violation of article 9 of the African Charter on Human ...

The Law Office of Ghazi Suleiman v. Sudan
Date:25/11/2008 In this case, the government of Sudan was found in violation of article 9 of the African Convention on Human and People's Rights for not allowing Mr...

Verbitsky v Argentina [1994] [IACHR]
Date:25/11/2008 This case deals with the 'desacato' laws, which in a number of Latin American States criminalise the criticism of public functionaries...

Liesbeth Zegveld and Mussie Ephrem v. Eritrea
Date:25/11/2008 This case concerned a group of activists who were convicted after having criticised the Eritrean authorities in public speeches...

Last Temptation of Christ v Chile
Date:24/11/2008 In this case, the Inter-American Court considered freedom of expression in Chile...

Lingens v Austria
Date:24/11/2008 The applicant, an Austrian journalist and editor of the magazine Profil, was found guilty of defamation by the Vienna Regional Court...

Wingrove v United Kingdom
Date:24/11/2008 The British authorities had refused to allow the distribution of a video, as it was regarded as blasphemous...

Open Door and Dublin Well Woman v Ireland
Date:24/11/2008 Two Irish non-profit organisations, which provided support and counselling to women who wanted to have an abortion. Abortion and the publication of books allegedly advocating the procurement of abortion ...

Otto-Preminger-Institute v Austria
Date:24/11/2008 In this case, the seizure by Austrian authorities of a film considered blasphemous and offensive was deemed legitimate in order to protect the rights of others to freedom of religion, given that the vast majority of the Tyrolean population was Roman Catholic...

Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium and others v Minister of Justice and others
Date:24/11/2008 In this case, the Supreme Court of Canada had to rule whether or not the administration of Customs legislation was oppressive and in violation of the appellants' freedom of expression...

Lopes Gomes da Silva v Portugal
Date:24/11/2008 In this case the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of the applicant's right to freedom of expression under article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights...

Larissis and others v Greece
Date:24/11/2008 In this case, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that the Greek government was justified in taking special measures against the applicants, Mr Larissis, Mr Mandalarides and Mr Sarandis...

Jersild v Denmark
Date:19/11/2008 This case involved the European Court's consideration of the conflict between freedom of expression and racial discrimination...

Amicus brief - Suharto v Time Magazine
Date:09/10/2008 The IBAHRI, in collaboration with a variety of commercial, journalistic, legal and non-government partners, submitted an amicus brief regarding the application for judicial review in the case of Suharto v Time Magazine (TIME) in Indonesia...

Amicus brief - Suharto v Time Magazine (Bahasa Indonesian)
Date:09/10/2008 The IBAHRI, in collaboration with a variety of commercial, journalistic, legal and non-government partners, submitted an amicus brief regarding the application for judicial review in the case of Suharto v Time Magazine (TIME) in Indonesia...

Sunday Times v United Kingdom [1979] [ECHR 1]
Date:01/06/1905 Between 1958 and 1961, a British pharmaceutical company marketed a sedative drug, Thalidomide...