Privacy law
High costs allow 'rich people' to exploit legal system, say media lawyers
Lawyers outline concerns with media privacy and libel law
Posted by Judith Townend on 24/02/09Government email plans are threat to press freedom, says privacy expert
Email database would have 'chilling effect' on journalism, says David Banisar
Posted by Judith Townend on 16/01/09Legal journalism could benefit from more open courts in 2009, says Joshua Rozenberg
Former Telegraph legal editor discusses how changes to the UK's legal landscape in 2009 could benefit journalists
Posted by Laura Oliver on 09/01/09Insidious privacy laws are strangling British media, says NOTW editor
High Court edicts on privacy have left media in 'an unrecognisable place'
Posted by Laura Oliver on 01/12/08An 'excellent' speech: 'Dacre is right on privacy (even where he is wrong)'
Charlie Beckett, director of POLIS
Posted by Charlie Beckett on 10/11/08SoE08: Paul Dacre's speech to the Society of Editors - in full
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre claimed that Justice Eady has taken away newspapers' 'freedom of expression'
Posted by Judith Townend on 10/11/08Max Mosley case: statement from Colin Myler, NOTW editor
Editor defends 'honest belief' in Nazi theme
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Guardian: Court of protection should be open to media, says leading judge
The processes of England’s most private court should be opened up to public and media scrutiny, the head of the court of protection Sir Nicholas Wall has said in an interview with the Guardian. The media has recently been granted increased access to the proceedings of the court, which makes decisions in the cases of [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 7 November 2011Jo Yeates' landlord: media responsible for 'extraordinary tissue of fabrications'
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme Chris Jefferies, the landlord of Joanna Yeates who was arrested on suspicion of her murder but later released, tells of being 'very disturbed' by press reports after his arrest
Posted by Joel Gunter on 2 November 2011Guardian: Ryan Giggs launches legal action over NOTW phone hacking
Ryan Giggs is to sue NOTW parent company, the Guardian reports and reveals Rebekah Brooks has been shown evidence by the Met that she was targeted by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 16 June 2011Guardian: Ministers agree on terms of reference for privacy committee
Guardian reports that the terms of reference have been agreed for a joint committee tasked with assessing the balance between the rights to privacy and freedom of expression
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 June 2011Independent: Poll finds judges 'too ready' to gag newspapers
The public has been described as having 'little sympathy' for people in the public eye who turn to the courts to stop embarrassing details of their private lives coming to light
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 1 June 2011Guardian: Hunt rules out new privacy law
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has ruled out a new privacy law after meeting with Justice Minister Ken Clarke
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 May 2011Superinjuctions and celebrity privacy case numbers revealed
The Star on Sunday listed 50 anonymous and superinjunctions, while the Mail revealed the number of celebrities seeking legal protection
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 16 May 2011Independent: Max Mosley 'bankrolling' legal costs of phone hacking victims
Max Mosley, the former Formula One chief who won £60,000 in damages in a privacy action against the News of the World, is "bankrolling phone-hacking victims' fight against the tabloid"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 May 2011Kelvin MacKenzie: Online makes mockery of super injunctions
Technology is "making fools" of high court judgements in relation to injunctions, according to former editor of the Sun Kelvin Mackenzie. Speaking on BBC Radio 4 Today on Saturday, reflecting on Andrew Marr's revelation last week that he had taken out a super-injunction to protect his family's privacy, Mackenzie said there should not be any such protections afforded.
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 May 2011Lord Lester 'not enthusiastic' about privacy laws
Lord Lester urged the newly-formed joint committee on the draft defamation bill not to try to tackle a privacy law within the legislation
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 27 April 2011BBC: David Cameron's concern about injunctions creating privacy law
David Cameron has expressed his unease at judges using human rights legislation "to deliver a sort of privacy law"
Posted by Sarah Booker on 21 April 2011Observer seeks to distinguish 'Operation Motorman' from the phone-hacking scandal
'Operation Motorman' investigated the use of a private investigator by the media to obtain personal information through a deception process referred to as 'blagging'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 4 February 2011Daily Mail apologises to Matt Lucas over invasion of privacy claim
Matt Lucas received 'substantial undisclosed' damages and an apology from Associated Newspapers following an article relating to the death of his ex-partner
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 17 December 2010Mail Online: New high court injunction granted for sports star
A married sportsman has won an injunction from the high court banning reporting on his private life
Posted by Laura Oliver on 12 November 2010Vanessa Perroncel speaks out against super-injunctions
Vanessa Perroncel has given newspaper interviews in which she condemns both the use of gagging orders by celebrities and the tabloid media coverage of affair allegations
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 23 August 2010CMS report: No case for a general privacy law
The Culture Media and Sport Committee said there is currently no case for a general privacy law in its report into press standards, privacy and libel
Posted by Laura Oliver on 24 February 2010The demise of the superinjunction?
The over-ruling of footballer John Terry's gagging order by Justice Tugendhat may mean courts will be less willing to issue superinjunctions
Posted by Judith Townend on 1 February 2010Paperhouse: Jon Snow is pro-privacy law - 'tabloids are going out of business anyway'
Jon Snow welcomes privacy law, in reverse-role interview with Ann Widdecombe
Posted by Judith Townend on 28 September 2009Watch again: BBC Panorama - 'The Death of Kiss and Tell'
Last night’s Panorama on privacy law and its threat to journalism is available on BBC iPlayer at this link. BBC news story at this link. From the Panorama site: … “it is not only kiss and tell stories that are under threat, and editors fear serious investigative journalism could be jeopardised; Panorama investigates this growing [...]
Posted by Judith Townend on 16 June 2009Rebekah Wade's first public speech in full
The full Hugh Cudlipp speech by the editor of the Sun, Rebekah Wade
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UK law prevents truth-telling in journalism, Nick Davies tells parliamentary committee
Greenslade and Davies agree on dangers of enforcing 'prior notification' by law
Posted by Judith Townend on 21/04/09