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  • AlJazeera’s Inside Story on “superinjunctions”

    Carl Gardner
    May 26, 2011

    I appeared on AlJazeera’s Inside Story on Tuesday, to discuss “superinjunctions” – well, anonymous injunctions in fact – with Martin Bentham of the Standard and Stephen Murdoch of Cambridge University. The programme’s now available on the web.

    Shiulie Ghosh introduces […]

  • Can the Danes ban Marmite?

    Carl Gardner
    May 25, 2011

    Jon Worth (surely Britain’s leading blogger on EU affairs) has the story that it’s now illegal to sell Marmite in Denmark. The Danish embassy has been anxious to stress that Marmite is not banned, but that is, I’m […]

    Tags: business, eu law, europe, food, free movement
  • Hemming does his worst

    Carl Gardner
    May 23, 2011

    As I think readers will surely know by now, John Hemming MP used Parliamentary privilege today to name the footballer whose anonymity is protected in this privacy case by an injunction, which the High Court decided earlier today […]

    Tags: attorney general, freedom of expression, human rights, injunctions, media law, parliament, private life
  • No bail-out for Strauss-Kahn

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2011

    The IMF boss and front-runner to be the French Socialist Party’s presidential candidate next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been refused bail by a court in New York, according to the BBC. As has been widely reported he’s facing a […]

    Tags: crime, extradition, france, prisons, US
  • Discussing privacy law with Roy Greenslade and Max Clifford

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2011

    I took part in Sunday Sequence on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday, discussing privacy law with Roy Greenslade, who’s professor of journalism at City University as well as being a former newspaper editor, and Max Clifford. The discussion […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, human rights, media law, private life
  • Mosley v UK

    Carl Gardner
    May 10, 2011

    Max Mosley has lost his case in the European Court of Human Rights, in which he claimed that the UK breached his right to respect for private life under article 8 of the ECHR by failing to impose a legal […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, human rights, media law, private life
  • Breaching so-called “superinjunctions” on Twitter: is this how low we’ve sunk?

    Carl Gardner
    May 9, 2011

    The BBC has reported that someone on Twitter has purported to “out” a number of celebrities who have supposedly obtained “superinjunctions” to protect their privacy.

    It’s unlikely of course that all of them are “superinjunctions” at all, which are injunctions […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, human rights, injunctions, media law, private life
  • Without Prejudice

    Carl Gardner
    May 6, 2011

    In our latest Without Prejudice podcast, the editor of Legal Week Alex Novarese joins Charon QC, David Allen Green and me to discuss:

    • the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden
    • the inquest into the death of […]
    Tags: podcasts
  • John Hemming, sub judice and the public interest: “no abuse of parliamentary procedure”?

    Carl Gardner
    April 27, 2011

    Yesterday afternoon there was speculation that John Hemming MP was planning to “break a superinjunction” in the House under cover of Parliamentary privilege.

    Then, not long after 5 o’clock, John Hemming made a point of order in the Commons [update: […]

    Tags: children, freedom of expression, injunctions, parliament
  • Without Prejudice

    Carl Gardner
    April 22, 2011

    In Without Prejudice this week, Dr Evan Harris joins Charon QC, David Allen Green and me to discuss the “Twitter Joke” case in which Paul Chambers is appealing; David Cameron’s comments on privacy law; the Digital […]

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