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- 5RB – media & entertainment law
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- Channel 4 Producer's Handbook – Media Law
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- David Price Guide to Media Law
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- Don’t Get Fooled Again
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- HMCS glossary of legal terms
- I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist
- Index on Censorship
- Informationa Rights and Wrongs
- Inforrm blog
- IP Media Law
- Jack of Kent
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- Journal Local
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- The Private Lives of Others
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- UK Human Rights Blog
- Wannabe Hacks
- WhatDoTheyKnow
Category Archives: privacy
Guest post: Adam Fellows – “Press Rights v Privacy Rights”
I didn’t make it to last week’s Bindmans debate at UCL, “Freedom of the Press versus Privacy Rights: Time for Parliament to draw the line?” but fortunately Adam Fellows (@fellowsadam and @eatplaylaw on Twitter) has written it up for those … Continue reading
John Tulloch: Oiling a very special relationship – journalists, bribery and the detective police
This article by Professor John Tulloch, Lincoln School of Journalism, is an extract from The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial, edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair (Arima 2012). The book will be launched at an event in … Continue reading
Posted in academic research, data protection, guest post, journalism, leveson inquiry, media ethics, media law, media regulation, newspapers, phone hacking, police, press freedom, privacy Tagged bribery, john tulloch, leveson inquiry, phone hacking, police, The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial 1 Comment
What would the Man on the Clapham Omnibus make of digital media law?
The view of the “reasonable man” on the Clapham Omnibus has been considered since (at least) 1932, but what would he make of behaviour in the digital environment? I’ve long been interested in the comprehension of media law by normal, … Continue reading
Balancing rights: Joshua Rozenberg interviews Mr Justice Eady
The new issue of the Index on Censorship magazine proclaims ‘Privacy Is Dead! Long Live Privacy.’ It features Joshua Rozenberg’s interview with Mr Justice Eady. Parts of it echo Eady’s previous speeches (for example, when he opened City University London’s … Continue reading
Are we sleepwalking into a privacy law?
No, says John Cooper QC from 25 Bedford Row: “it’s simply a development of the law”. Judges, he said at this morning’s Weber Shandwick debate at Gray’s Inn, are interpreting existing law: Articles 8 and 10 and Section 12 of … Continue reading
Rusbridger: ‘The Guardian has never yet been sued under any kind of privacy law’
You can read the speech for yourself here (it went online before he’d even delivered it, doing the conscientious live tweeters out of a job), but I thought it worth flagging up a couple of Alan Rusbridger’s comments from last … Continue reading
Posted in defamation, events, media law, newspapers, privacy Tagged alan rusbridger, defamation, guardian news & media, privacy 1 Comment
Super-Eady?
This is pretty funny, via the Taiwan based NMA TV:
The marred privacy injunction
It was no legal secret that BBC presenter and former political correspondent Andrew Marr had secured an injunction in early 2008, preventing newspapers from reporting details about his private life. But this week was the first time the private information … Continue reading
Posted in media law, privacy, reporting restrictions, super injunctions Tagged andrew marr, super injunctions 3 Comments
Privacy injunction hearings: not 'super' but anonymous
This week I helped the Inforrm blog put together a list of privacy injunction hearings, to contribute to the debate about super and anonymous injunctions. Versions of the post have appeared on the BBC College of Journalism and the Italian-English … Continue reading
Posted in media law, privacy, super injunctions Tagged anonymity, privacy, super injunctions 2 Comments