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Analysis: Privacy cases re-visited, a year on from Super Injunction Spring -...
Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog: A year on from the introduction of the Master of the Rolls' Practice Guidance, six privacy injunctions have been discharged, but with the claimant's anonymity maintained...
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Law and Media Mid-Summer Round Up – 29 August 2012
Reblogged from Inforrm's Blog: Parliamentarians are still in recess, Lord Justice Leveson has finished taking evidence for Part 1 of his Inquiry, the Michaelmas legal term has not yet begun, but there...
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How should privacy injunctions be reported?
The recommended procedure and law around privacy injunctions “isn’t quite fit for purpose” according to Gideon Benaim, a partner at Michael Simkins LLP (formerly of Schillings), writing in the Guardian...
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Reporting privacy injunctions: a response from Gideon Benaim
I recently asked a couple of questions about reporting anonymised privacy injunctions, following a piece by Gideon Benaim in the Guardian. Benaim, a partner at Michael Simkins LLP, has responded with a...
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A dearth of data about defamation cases in England & Wales
On Tuesday evening (18 Sept), the Law Society held a public debate on the Defamation Bill, asking the panel – including two QCs, a libel reform campaigner and an in-house newspaper lawyer – what they...
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Gideon Benaim: Payments for private information and the regulation of journalism
Gideon Benaim, partner at Michael Simkins LLP (formerly of Schillings), has responded to my question about the potential regulation of payments for private information, in a blog post for Inforrm. He...
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Unmanned aerial journalism: how drones could be the industry’s next big thing
Parrot AR. Drone [Source: Wikipedia]Some specialists would prefer that we called drones by their official name, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. However, UAV journalism doesn’t have quite the same ring to it...
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Rudyard Kipling and the media: ‘Tell it to the public press / And we will do...
A recently discovered poem by Rudyard Kipling, written in 1899, fits the current Leveson/press regulation theme quite neatly – it voices the poet’s frustrations with media questions, opening “Why don’t...
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Open courts data, open justice… and the right to be forgotten?
I dipped my toe in the curious world of data protection enforcement yesterday [4 June], at the first joint seminar of the DP Forum and NADPO (The National Association of Data Protection Officers). The...
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Privacy and restrictions on disclosure in Tribunals
As a postscript to my post on open courts and the ‘right to be forgotten’: PA Media Lawyer has highlighted that a new Rule 50 of the Employment Tribunal Regulations 2013 stipulates a new provision for...
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