I almost almost choked on my credit crunch this morning (Sainsbury’s “Basics” breakfast wheat biscuits) as I listened to quotes from Paul Dacre’s lecture to the Society of Editors Conference, in which he attacks Eady J personally for his […]

Charon interviewed me this morning about the Max Mosley case. We spoke about the development from old-style breach of confidence to what’s effectively a British privacy law, with the new extended right of action for breach of privacy, and […]

Eady J was keen to point out that, strictly speaking, his judgment in Max Mosley’s case does not involve any radical development of the law:

It’s available now thanks to the lovely BAILII. I’ve not read it yet: but I’ll post about it later today when I’ve had a chance to. From what the judge appears to have said it looks as though […]

Two stories from France today: first, that of Brigitte Bardot and her conviction by the Paris Tribunal Correctionnel for incitement of hatred towards Muslims. It wasn’t her first conviction, either. This time (the offence goes back to […]

Before I leave the Big Apple, a leader in today’s New York Times drew my attention to this US Supreme Court case in which a federal law on child pornography has been upheld as constitutional.

The Times […]

Gosh, what a legal week this has been! In all the flurry, I’ve not yet posted the judgment in which Eady J refused Max Mosley an injunction against the News of the World. Paragraph 4 of the […]

There are five of them.

Brit Syndicates is about the construction of an insurance indemnity policy: not my kind of thing at all. Total Network is about VAT “carousel” or “MTIC” fraud […]

The Adminstrative Court has today dismissed a judicial review brought by the fundamentalist organisation Christian Voice. Its director Stephen Green had challenged the decision of the District Judge in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court not to issue summonses […]

A few days ago I missed the news that the police will be taking no action in respect of the Nan Goldin photo taken from the Baltic in Gateshead.

How amazing!

I did suggest this was […]