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BRITAIN: Decisions of the 'privacy law judge'Date:10/11/2008 The editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, has launched a scathing attack on the judgements of Mr Justice Eady, accusing him of creating a privacy law by the backdoor...
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Monday, 10 November 2008Last Modified:
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BRITAIN: Lashing out at the lawDate:11/11/2008 Paul Dacre does not often break cover in person, but when he does the audience knows to buckle their seat belts...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
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BRITAIN: Lashing out at the law (Editorial)Date:11/11/2008 Paul Dacre does not often break cover in person, but when he does the audience knows to buckle their seat belts...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
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BRITAIN: Lashing out at the law (Editorial)Date:11/11/2008 Paul Dacre does not often break cover in person, but when he does the audience knows to buckle their seat belts...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BRITAIN: Privacy law and the freedom of expressionDate:11/11/2008 Sir, Paul Dacre's isolation of Mr Justice Eady for public attack (Judge has created privacy law by back door, says Mail editor, Times Online, Nov 10) cannot stand unanswered, not least because, by convention, the judge is unable to respond publicly to such criticism...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
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BRITAIN: The Threat To Our PressDate:11/11/2008 We are facing very serious threats to our press freedoms...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Raoul Moat: Prime minister criticises public sympathyDate:14/07/2010 …
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Amazon opts out of Phorm systemDate:16/04/2009 Amazon has opted out of Phorms controversial targeted-advertising technology, delivering a blow to the UK-listed company, which is already the subject of a European Commission legal action against the UK government...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
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UK: Big names to speak at Press Gazette media law conferenceDate:15/01/2009 Justice secretary Jack Straw, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Sally Murrer lawyer Louis Charalambous are among the speakers at Press Gazettes Media Law Conference next month...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Call for media 'crisis' debates Date:15/01/2009 Calls have been made for debates in both the Welsh assembly and in the House of Commons on the crisis of the lack of media in Wales ...
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UK: Call for media 'crisis' debates Date:15/01/2009 Calls have been made for debates in both the Welsh assembly and in the House of Commons on the crisis of the lack of media in Wales ...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Faith, Fanaticism, and Freedom of Speech Date:27/01/2009 TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS month an Islamic organization in Great Britain staged a 1, 000-strong rally of rage: with BBC cameras rolling, Muslim protestors burned copies of The Satanic Verses, the 1988 work by British novelist Salman Rushdie criticizing Mohammed...
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Far-right Dutch lawmaker sent home from UKDate:13/02/2009 Britain barred a far-right Dutch lawmaker from entering the country Thursday because of his anti-Islamic views, touching off a wide-ranging debate in the U...
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Friday, 13 February 2009Last Modified:
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UK: Geert Wilders ban: Your commentsDate:13/02/2009 A Dutch MP who described the Koran as a fascist book has been banned by the Home Office from entering the UK amid fears his presence would endanger public security...
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Friday, 13 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Google Street View cleared of breaking Data Protection ActDate:27/04/2009 Google Street View, the controversial website that shows 360-degree street views of many of Britains cities does not breach the Data Protection Act, the information commissioner ruled today...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Title Too LongDate:03/04/2009 A couple of years ago, I republished a 20-year-old Guardian article that shed some light on activities that blogger Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes, was involved in at the time...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: I’m standing up for free speech says tribunal ministerDate:16/01/2009 A CHURCH minister from East Kilbride says he is 'standing up for free speech' as he prepares for a legal battle with an Asian radio station...
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Friday, 16 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Internet pirates beware: this man is out to stop youDate:27/04/2009 For a man engaged in the political equivalent of herding cats, David Lammy seems in a remarkably good mood...
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Monday, 27 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Judge upholds journalist Suzanne Breen's right to withhold IRA detailsDate:19/06/2009 Belfast journalist today won the right to withhold material relating to the Real IRA from the state, in a landmark ruling on press freedom...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Libel, privacy, the ‘chilling effect’ and NGOsDate:04/06/2009 In its last evidence session for its inquiry into press standards, privacy and libel, the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee today heard from not-for-profit campaign organisation Global Witness’ co-founder Charmian Gooch and Mark Stephens, a lawyer from Finers Stephens Innocent, who has represented non-profit organisations previously...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Little change for media in family courtsDate:20/04/2009 It all seemed so promising when Jack Straw announced in December that the government was going to open up the family courts to greater media - and therefore public - scrutiny...
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Monday, 20 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Media law conference: Max Mosley judge 'did the press a favour'Date:12/02/2009 Mr Justice Eady did the press a favour in the Max Mosley case, a leading litigation lawyer told the Press Gazette media conference this morning...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Millions will have to wait a decade for superfast internet accessDate:16/06/2009 Millions of homes are expected to be denied superfast internet access for at least a decade because of a failure to reach agreement across the communications industry over who should pay for the upgrade...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Move to control costs in defamation casesDate:25/02/2009 Proposals to control costs in defamation cases were unveiled by the Government today...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Nominations are still open for Index on Censorship’s 2009 T R Fyvel Book AwardDate:28/01/2009 Nominations are open for the 2009 T R Fyvel Book Award...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: NUJ warns against relaxing rules on mergers of local media groupsDate:03/04/2009 National Union of Journalists says regional press will go into spiral of decline if government eases ownership restrictions The National Union of Journalists has warned that the UKs regional press will go into a spiral of decline if the government scraps rules restricting mergers among the large newspaper groups...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Over 200 Community Radio Stations At Risk of Closure Due to Government InactionDate:18/08/2009 Community radio stations across the United Kingdom are at risk of closure due to highly restrictive funding arrangements and the failure of government to fully implement a public funding mechanism that was established in law in 2003...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Plans to cut defamation costs Date:25/02/2009 The cost of legal fees in defamation cases should be controlled, the government has announced...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Privacy groups oppose advert targetingDate:03/04/2009 Privacy groups have strongly opposed online advert-targeting technology, but nearly half of UK consumers say they are not bothered by it, a survey has revealed...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Publish and be named: Police blogger NightJack loses anonymityDate:17/06/2009 High court says detective constable had 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' in landmark ruling for bloggers Blogging is a public activity with no right to anonymity, the high court ruled today in a decision expected to have far-reaching repercussions for thousands of bloggers who keep their identities secret...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Supreme Court Reaffirms Open Justice Principle and Orders Identification of Terror SuspectsDate:28/01/2010 UK: Supreme Court Reaffirms Open Justice Principle and Orders Identification of Terror Suspects ARTICLE 19 welcomes today’s unanimous decision of the Supreme Court ordering the identification of five persons who had their assets frozen by the Treasury for suspicion of supporting terrorist activities...
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Thursday, 28 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Surreal moments as Breen says she faces death if she reveals her sourcesDate:12/06/2009 There were a couple of surreal moments during today's court case in which the journalist Suzanne Breen was fighting off a demand by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that she reveal her confidential sources...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: The Times convicted of contempt of court for report on jury's disagreementDate:13/05/2009 The Times and a jury foreman who spoke to the paper about how he disagreed with the verdict reached by jurors in a manslaughter case have been found guilty of contempt of court today...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 'The security services want to force journalists like Northern Ireland editor Suzanne Breen to gather intelligence for the state Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 'The security services want to force journalists like Northern Ireland editor Suzanne Breen to gather intelligence for the state Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Undermining press freedomDate:03/06/2009 'The security services want to force journalists like Northern Ireland editor Suzanne Breen to gather intelligence for the state Do you know who Suzanne Breen is? If you care about press freedom you should...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: United Kingdom to decriminalise defamation Date:13/07/2009 On Friday, 10 July 2009, the government of the United Kingdom formally committed to decriminalising defamation by doing away with the common law offences of sedition, seditious libel and defamatory libel...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
United Kingdom: ARTICLE 19 Welcomes Judgment on Confidentiality of Journalistic SourcesDate:25/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 welcomes the landmark ruling of the High Court in Belfast in the case of investigative journalist, Suzanne Breen, which decided that a court order forcing her to hand over her notes would have threatened her life and the lives of her family, and compromised the protection of her sources...
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Thursday, 25 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
United Kingdom: Government Begins Decriminalisation of Defamation, Concerns Remain for Northern IrelandDate:16/10/2009 ARTICLE 19, English PEN and Index on Censorship welcome the UK government’s drive to decriminalise defamation...
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Friday, 16 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UNITED KINGDOM: Times's verdict on Sir Roy Meadow evidence was 'legitimate', says PCCDate:12/01/2009 The Press Complaints Commission today rejected a complaint from Professor Sir Roy Meadow about a 2005 article in the Times that said his evidence had led to the jailing of innocent people...
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Monday, 12 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UNITED KINGDOM: Times's verdict on Sir Roy Meadow evidence was 'legitimate', says PCCDate:12/01/2009 The Press Complaints Commission today rejected a complaint from Professor Sir Roy Meadow about a 2005 article in the Times that said his evidence had led to the jailing of innocent people...
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Monday, 12 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC settles libel battle with IVF doctorDate:09/06/2009 The BBC confirmed yesterday that it has agreed to settle its costly libel battle with the IVF specialist Mohamed Taranissi over a Panorama programme...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC staff 'arrested and tortured in Libya by Gaddafi forces'Date:09/03/2011 …
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Wednesday, 9 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC staff 'arrested and tortured in Libya by Gaddafi forces'Date:09/03/2011 Journalists working for the BBC in Libya have been arrested, tortured and subjected to a mock execution by security forces of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime...
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Wednesday, 9 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BBC strike called offDate:03/04/2009 A 24-hour strike by BBC journalists over job cuts that was scheduled to begin at midnight has been called off...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Britain's 'draconian' libel laws to be reformedDate:12/07/2010 A consultation will take place over the summer before legislation is put before Parliament early in the New Year...
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Monday, 12 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
British author faces prison sentence in SingaporeDate:04/11/2010 The British author Alan Shadrake is today facing a possible prison sentence after a court in Singapore convicted him of challenging the integrity of the city state's judiciary in a book criticising its use of the death penalty...
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Thursday, 4 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
British minister 'dismayed' by author's Singapore jail termDate:19/11/2010 A minister has said he is dismayed by the prison sentence handed to a British author convicted by a Singapore court of insulting the city-state's judiciary...
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Friday, 19 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
British students demonstrate for free speech, others protest against inciting racism Date:10/02/2010 Students at Durham University in England held a demonstration on 9 February after the British National Union of Students intervened with the students’ plan to invite two representatives of the British National Party (BNP), Chris Beverly and Andrew Brons, to speak at a debate...
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Broadcasting Bill amendedDate:24/02/2009 The contentious Broadcasting Amendment Bill has been amended after President Kgalema Motlanthe refused to sign it into law, the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications said on Friday...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Koran-protest pastor Terry Jones may be banned from UKDate:12/12/2010 Home Secretary Theresa May has said she will be actively looking at whether a controversial US pastor should be banned from entering the UK...
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Sunday, 12 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK bans Muslim group over war march Date:14/01/2010 Britain has decided to outlaw a Muslim group that planned but dropped an anti-war march through a town symbolizing Britain's commitment to its war dead, a move slammed by the group as a failure to tolerate freedom of expression...
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Thursday, 14 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UKIP chief Nigel Farage calls for burka ban Date:19/01/2010 The burka and other face-covering veils worn by Muslim women should be banned, the UK Independence Party says...
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vince Cable weakened by Murdoch rowDate:22/12/2010 Business Secretary Vince Cable told the Daily Telegraph's undercover reporters that he could use the nuclear option by leaving government - and bringing the coalition down, if pushed too far by the Conservatives...
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EUROPE: CFA 'unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression'Date:18/03/2009 The no-win no-fee regime and libel tourism are having a serious chilling effect on the right to freedom of expression, according to a submission to the European Court of Human Rights...
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Case study - trial observation training (English)Date:09/10/2008 This case study was used in the Regional Trial Observation Training held in Bangkok in July 2008 with the support of the Open Society Institute...
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Thursday, 9 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Podcast: The Right to KnowDate:16/10/2008 This is a two-part BBC World Service documentary on freedom of information...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IBA Media Law Committee NewsletterDate:20/11/2008 This is the latest copy of the IBA Media Law Committee's newsletter, from September 2007...
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Thursday, 20 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Wingrove v United KingdomDate:24/11/2008 The British authorities had refused to allow the distribution of a video, as it was regarded as blasphemous...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK Press GazetteDate:04/12/2008 Resources and forums for journalists and media professionals...
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Thursday, 4 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
MGN LTD v. the United KingdomDate: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 …
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Observer and Guardian v. the United KingdomDate: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, …
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Monday, 2 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
video: The Convention on Modern LibertyDate:03/03/2009 Thanks to Jake Dowie and Global Mix, we were able to stream video of some of the events in the Logan Hall in London to viewers across the country...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
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...
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Thursday, 1 June 1905Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Appleby and others v. the United KingdomDate: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...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tolstoy Miloslavsky v the United KingdomDate: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…
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Bowman v UKDate: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...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Panos LondonDate:27/05/2009 Panos London promotes the participation of poor and marginalised people in national and international development debates through media and communication projects...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Criminal and seditious libel ? out of time?Date:22/07/2009 Peter Noorlander, Legal Director, Media Legal Defence Initiative In common law, there are a number of criminal offences that have historically been used to silence dissenting voices...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mosley v U.K. Submissions of GNM LtdDate: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...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
British Chiropractic Association v. Singh Date:07/04/2010 The claimant the British Chiropractic Association (the BCA) is a company limited by guarantee...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd. and OthersDate: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...
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Monday, 19 July 2010Last Modified:
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Flood v Times Newspaper LtdDate: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'…
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Irving v Penguin Books Ltd [2000] EWHC QB 115Date: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'…
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Monday, 26 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home DepartmentDate: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…
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
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…
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010Last Modified:
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Re British Broadcasting Corporation [2009] UKHL 34Date: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...
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Thursday, 26 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Campbell v MGN Ltd Date:26/08/2010 The model, Naomi Campbell, was photographed leaving a drugs clinic...
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Thursday, 26 August 2010Last Modified:
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Re Guardian News and Media Ltd and Others [2010] UKSC 1Date: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...
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Goodwin v the United KingdomDate:02/09/2010 Mr William Goodwin (the applicant) was a British journalist working for an engineering industry magazine...
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Thursday, 2 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
DFT v. TFDDate: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...
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Friday, 8 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Queen on the application of Binyam Mohamed v the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth AffairsDate:21/10/2010 This case illustrates the courts' current difficulty in reconciling the freedom of expression and national security...
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Thursday, 21 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Metropolitan International Schools Limited v (1) Designtechnica Corporation (2) Google UK Limited (3) Google IncDate: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...
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Monday, 1 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Robert Elwyn James Watkins v Philip James WoolasDate:07/11/2010 This was a case under sections 106 and120 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (RPA 83)...
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Sunday, 7 November 2010Last Modified:
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Ntuli v DonaldDate: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 …
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010Last Modified:
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Phillips v News Group, Mulcaire and Metropolitan Police CommissionerDate: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...
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Wednesday, 1 December 2010Last Modified:
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Naik v. The Secretary of StateDate:02/12/2010 This case concerned the exclusion of Dr Zakir Naik, an Islamic preacher, from entering the United Kingdom...
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Thursday, 2 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Austin & Anon v Commissioner of Police of the MetropolisDate:03/12/2010 This was a case arising from the 2001 May Day protests...
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Friday, 3 December 2010Last Modified:
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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...
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Wednesday, 8 December 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
MacKay & BBC Scotland v The United KingdomDate: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…
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Friday, 10 December 2010Last Modified:
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Regina on the application of Philip James Woolas v The Parliamentary Election CourtDate: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…
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Friday, 10 December 2010Last Modified:
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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...
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Thursday, 13 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mirror Group News v UKDate: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...
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Friday, 21 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
United KingdomDate:14/07/2010 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in the UK...
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Guardian v. City of Westminster MagistrateDate:03/02/2011 Freedom of Expression: Right to access v Right to receive…
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Thursday, 3 February 2011Last Modified:
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Guardian v. City of Westminster Magistrate?Date:08/02/2011 Freedom of Expression: Right to access v Right to receive…
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Tuesday, 8 February 2011Last Modified:
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Handyside v The United Kingdom (1976) 1 EHRR 737Date: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...
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Friday, 11 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Munim Abdul v DPPDate:24/02/2011 At a parade of British soldiers, the claimants had shouted various things such as, 'burn in hell'and 'rapists'…
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Thursday, 24 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
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...
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Friday, 4 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Mosley v. United Kingdom [2011] (Application No. 48009/08)Date:10/05/2011 10th May 2011 Court: ECtHR Citation: 48009/08…
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011Last Modified:
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Phone-hacking scandal threatens press freedom, says LebedevDate:12/05/2011 'The dark, murky methods' of some tabloid journalists could result in restrictions on freedom of expression in Britain which would not have been out of place in the totalitarian days of Russia, a publisher warned tonight...
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Thursday, 12 May 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Despite Mosley?s court defeat, press freedom remains under attack Date:12/05/2011 A rather traditional battle between a tabloid newspaper and a rich individual seems to be concluded (unless, of course, it goes to appeal)...
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Thursday, 12 May 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
UK: Independent writer's admission highlights news copyright issues"An admission by the Independent's columnist and interviewer Johann Hari that he has lifted material for his interviews may be honest, but...
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Leading Palestinian activist arrested in LondonDate: 30/06/2011 "The home secretary, Theresa May, has ordered "a full investigation" after a leading Palestinian activist in Israel entered Britain despite a travel ban...
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Judge rules Iris Robinson injunction application to be considered in privateDate: 30/06/2011 "A judge has ruled tonight that a bid by former MP Iris Robinson to ban surveillance of her by journalists and the publication of her medical details must be held in private because of the dangers that Twitter and other social network sites could pose to her...
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Thursday, 30 June 2011
Phone hacking: Press Association to support Laura ElstonDate: 30/06/2011 "The Press Association said on Tuesday it was offering its full support to Laura Elston, its royal reporter arrested and bailed by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by journalists...
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Press Association backs phone-hack arrest reporterDate:30/06/2011 "A Press Association journalist arrested as part of police investigations into alleged phone-hacking has received the "full support" of her editors...
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UK: Cameron Orders Two Inquiries Into Hacking Scandal as Former Aide Is ArrestedDate:07/07/2011 "British police arrested a former editor of The News of the World tabloid on Friday who had also been a senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, deepening the crisis...
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Friday, 8 July 2011Last Modified:
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Phone hacking: Police probe suspected deletion of emails by NI executiveDate: 08/07/2011 "Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive, in an apparent attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard's inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal
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Expert Group for Freedom of Expression on the Internet meets for first timeDate: 20/07/2011 "Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne opened the first meeting of the group, which was attended by experts from the legal, academic and media communities, NGOs and the business sector...
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
Hague hits out at Israel boycott law Date: 20/07/2011 "Foreign Secretary William Hague has criticised Israel's new anti-boycott law, calling it an "infringement of freedom of expression"...
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
Global: Murdoch's ambitions in the Middle EastDate: 25/7/11 "Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch's media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal...
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
United Kingdom: London riots - Twitter says all tweets must continue to flowDate: 09 August 2011 "Talking to The Telegraph, a Twitter spokesman stuck to the company’s line that the tweets must continue to flow...
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UK: Twitter Refuses to Close Accounts of Rioters to Protect their 'Freedom of Expression'Date: 11 August 2011 "Twitter has refused to close the accounts of London rioters who used the service to spread unrest and insisted that Tweets must 'continue to flow'...
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
UK: Tories torn over regulating social mediaDate: 24 August 2011 "In a country without a written constitution, British politicians struggle to contend with Twitter, Facebook and other social media at a time of crisis.
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Friday, 26 August 2011
Do we have a fundamental right to film the police in public?Date: 31 August 2011 "As a number of recent cases have made clear, filming policing activity in public places is a vital method of holding police to account...
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Wednesday, 7 September 2011
UK: Ban on racist marches 'breaks free speech law'Date: 01 September 2011 "City of London police secured an order from Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday which outlaws such protests in the Square Mile for 30 days to
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Wednesday, 7 September 2011
UN Plan to Increase Safety of JournalistsDate: 20 September 2011 "In an official statement released on 20 September 2011, the United Nations confirmed that a draft action plan to improve safety of journalists and combat crimes against them has been prepared by representatives...
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Monday, 26 September 2011
Dowler lawyer: News Corp faces hacking lawsuit in USDate: 23 September 2011 "American lawyers are set to launch legal action against News Corporation over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal...
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UK: Ferdinand loses court battle to silence newspaperDate: 29 September 2011 "Rio Ferdinand has lost a privacy action against the Sunday Mirror. The footballer accused the paper of misusing private information after it...
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
OSCE warns that proposals to regulate internet could threaten freedom of expressionDate: 28 September 2011 "The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, has voiced concerns over internet regulation policies proposed by several...
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UK: Reform options for media regulationDate: 30 September 2011 "As many commentators have pointed out, the British press is not subject to regulation in the ordinary sense. It must, of course, operate within the civil and criminal law but ...
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UK: The importance of a free pressDate: 6 October 2011 "Anyone wanting to know why a free press matters could do worse than study the story of how the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World was uncovered
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Why was Tzipi Livni's visit to the UK accorded privileged status?Date: 8 October 2011 "Last month, on the day that changes in universal jurisdiction law went into effect, Israel's former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she "received a phone call"...
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UK: David Cameron Backs Whistleblowing Site to Crack Down on Raunchy AdsDate: 10 October 2011 "David Cameron backs whistleblowing site to crack down on raunchy ads Prime minister calls media industry summit to hear progress on tightening rules
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Julian Assange's options narrow as judges reject extradition appealDate: 02 November 2011 "Short of cash and running out of legal arguments, the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, felt the net tighten around him on Wednesday as the...
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UK: Executive 'forced out of job' over LinkedIn CVDate: 05 January 2012 "John Flexman, 34, is thought to be the first person in the country to bring a case for constructive dismissal after a dispute with bosses over his profile on the professional networking site LinkedIn...
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Speakers’ Corner Committee Model ConstitutionSpeaker's Corner Trust (SCT) is an international organization promoting freedom of speech in the UK and developing democracies. SCT committees were born out of the tradition of having corners for speaking in public areas during the civil unrest in nineteenth century Britain. SCT now encourages the creation of new committees to spread the tradition and encourage freedom of speech. Set out below is the standard constitution which SCT has developed as a model for local Speakers’ Corner Committees.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012
You can't read this book: why libel tourists love londonDate: 15 January 2012 "At their best, journalists expose the crimes of the powerful and there were plenty of powerful people worthy of examination in the Britain of the early...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Babar Ahmad ruling is a victory for freedom of expressionDate: 12 Janaury 2012 "The justice secretary certainly acted unlawfully in refusing to allow the BBC to interview Babar Ahmad, a British prisoner wanted in the US on terrorism charges...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Freedom of Expression. TG Ash, Jonathan Biss, Fawaz Gerges. 14 Jan 2012BBC Podcast
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This growing culture of outrage doesn't extend free speech – it limits itDate: 18 January 2012 "I found a great image the other day, online obviously. It has a cat sitting in front of a computer screen. At the top it says: "OMG I have been offended." ...
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Thursday, 19 January 2012
City wins bid to evict Occupy London protestersDate: 18 January 2012 "The City of London Corporation has won its High Court bid to evict protesters from outside St Paul's Cathedral. The demonstrators, who are...
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Friday, 20 January 2012
Future or Funeral? A Guide to Public Service Media Regulation in Europe"[...] nobody needs another paper on the future of public service media in Europe. This unique phenomenon of collectively funded electronic mass media has been subject to extensive research over the last few decades and different models have been described and analysed to the nth degree...
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Britain revokes Iranian TV Network’s LicenceDate: 20 Janaury 2011 "Britain’s media regulator revoked the broadcast license for the Iranian state-owned television network Press TV on Friday..."
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Sun editor: judges don't have balance right on privacyDate: 02 February 2012 " The editor of the Sun has told MPs and peers that judges had "not got the balance right" when it came to privacy cases involving celebrities and...
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Friday, 3 February 2012
Meeja LawBLOG: Meeja Law, written by Judith Townend, is about media law and ethics for online publishers, with a specific focus on English law. I am a freelance journalist and researcher based in the UK and formerly a reporter for the media news site...
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BBC Persian staff face Iranian intimidationDate: 03 February 2012 "Iran is stepping up a campaign of intimidation and smears against the BBC's Persian TV service, watched by millions of people in the Islamic...
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Freedom of connection, freedom of expression: the changing legal and regulatory ecology shaping the InternetThis report provides a new perspective on the social and political dynamics behind the threats to expression. It develops a conceptual framework on the ‘ecology of freedom of expression’ for discussing the broad context of policy and practice that should be taken into consideration in discussions of this issue.
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Euro judges back British media with key rulingsDate 07 February 2012 "The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg upheld a challenge by German newspaper Bild against a TV star's injunction banning reports...
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Media interest in celebrities' lives is legitimate, European court rulesDate: 07 February 2012 "The private lives of celebrities are of legitimate interest to the media, the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled in landmark judgments...
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Media law: what to expect in 20122012 is likely to be a year of significant change in media law, with some real challenges and opportunities for media professionals to tackle and embrace. This piece looks at the key developments that are on the horizon...
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Friday, 24 February 2012
Top Gurkha case lawyer attacks spate of complaints against councillors as threat to free speechDate: 05 March 2012 "A LEADING human rights lawyer has condemned the system under which Welsh councillors can be barred from office for speaking their minds as a fundamental threat to freedom of speech...
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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...
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Thursday, 8 March 2012
This Defamation Bill is a disaster for free speech Date: 13 June 2012 - " Watching free-speech campaigners cheer the Defamation Bill as it glides through parliament is a bit like seeing fox-hunters celebrate the Hunting Act...
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Ecuador 'will respect freedom of expression' in Assange caseDate: 21 June 2012 - "A decision on the fate of Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be made within 24 hours, while the Ecuadorian foreign minister took to Twitter...
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
Twitter joke humorous not menacing, high court judges told27 June 2012 - "A message sent on Twitter threatening to blow up a snowbound airport unless it reopened was not "menacing" and was like a comic cracking a joke on stage, the lord chief justice was told at the high court ...
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012