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  • 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
  • ZAM v CFW & TFW: has John Hemming changed his mind?

    Carl Gardner
    April 20, 2011

    I posted recently about last month’s High Court judgment in this case, in which Mr Justice Tugendhat granted an injunction to stop allegations which were not even defended as true, and which Tugendhat J thought could involve an […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, injunctions, media law, parliament
  • ZAM v CFW & TFW: “suing for libel in secret”

    Carl Gardner
    March 30, 2011

    David Leigh has written in the Guardian today about a “superinjunction” granted in a libel case, preventing publication not only of allegations made about about the claimant, known as ZAM, but of his identity. He’s also tweeted about […]

    Tags: defamation, freedom of expression, media law
  • Employment Tribunal ruling: O’Reilly v BBC

    Carl Gardner
    January 11, 2011

    Here’s the Employment Tribunal’s ruling in Miriam O’Reilly’s successful age discrimination and victimisation claim aginst the BBC over its decision to drop her as a presenter of Countryfile. She won on age discrimination, on the basis that the ET thought […]

    Tags: discrimination, employment, media law
  • Taking Vince Cable off the BSkyB case

    Carl Gardner
    December 21, 2010

    Vince Cable has not resigned over his reported remark that he’d “declared war on Rupert Murdoch” – but the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will make any further decision on the proposed News Corporation takeover of BSkyB instead of him. […]

    Tags: eu law, government, judicial review, media law, US constitution
  • Ray Gosling: prosecution is against the public interest

    Carl Gardner
    August 20, 2010

    The Crown Prosecution Service has issued a press release today saying it has decided that Ray Gosling should be prosecuted for wasting police time under section 5(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1967, following his Inside Out […]

    Tags: crime, freedom of expression, human rights, media law
  • Privacy law: there’s no need for “clarification”

    Carl Gardner
    August 18, 2010

    Following on from my post the other day about privacy and the notorious “back door”, I’m surprised Lord McNally has been taken in sufficiently to propose new privacy legislation to “clarify” the law and remove some of its […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, government, human rights, media law, private life
  • Privacy law “through the back door”

    Carl Gardner
    August 12, 2010

    I’m baffled by the prevalence of the belief among journalists that judges are bringing in a privacy law “by the back door”. It’s the phrase the Telegraph uses when reporting the fact that the golfer and Ryder Cup captain […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, human rights, media law, private life
  • Fox v Federal Communications Commission

    Carl Gardner
    July 13, 2010

    On the day the High Court here has delivered a blow against the Foxification of our media, in the United States Fox TV (together with the big networks, CBS, ABC and NBC among others) has had a genuine legal […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, human rights, media law, US constitution
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