Friday, 7 October 2011
Main Page Content:

Media Law for Journalists

-

Satchwell: Expensive regulation could mean state control

7 October 2011

Director of the Society of Editors Bob Satchwell asked who will fund the “great edifice of regulation” being called for in the wake of the hacking scandal when he delivered the Olsen Lecture at St Bride's, Fleet Street, last night.

-

Kelly Hoppen in £60,000 NoW hacking settlement

7 October 2011

Interior designer Kelly Hoppen today accepted a £60,000 in settlement over her High Court action over the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

-

Leveson Inquiry: Trevor Kavanagh leads tabloid fightback

6 October 2011

Sun associate editor Trevor Kavanagh warned today that the Leveson Inquiry into phone-hacking appears to be "out to get the tabloids" who are seen as "uncultured, malpractised and unethical".

-

Leveson told of tabloid 'omerta' on 'life-wrecking stories'

6 October 2011

Former tabloid reporter Richard Peppiatt lay down the gauntlet to the assembled editors at the Leveson Inquiry seminar this morning with a wide-ranging attack on the ethics of the industry.

-

Snoddy: PCC-type body 'best for press regulation'

6 October 2011

Issues of privacy and press regulation are best decided by a body such as the Press Complaints Commission - and it should be better funded and have the power to investigate areas of concern rather than simply reacting to complaints, ...

-

Chris Huhne's lover claims 'cataclysmic' intrusion by Mail

5 October 2011

A week after footballer Rio Ferdinand lost his kiss and tell legal battle against the Sunday Mirror, the Daily Mail is facing another high-profile privacy claim in the High Court - brought by Chris Huhne's partner Carina Trimingham.

-

Sun libel payout to Man U player over sex story

5 October 2011

A case of mistaken identity has led to The Sun paying Manchester United footballer Tom Cleverley "a substantial sum" in libel damages.

-

Leveson Inquiry questioning to start in November

5 October 2011

Oral evidence in the first part of the inquiry into media ethics and phone hacking could start next month, Lord Justice Leveson said yesterday.

-

Reporting life or death case 'in public interest'

4 October 2011

It is in the public interest that cases such as that involving a woman in a minimally conscious state whose family wanted her to be allowed to die should be "reported as widely and freely as possible", according to a judge in the ...

-

New trial rules stress importance of open justice

3 October 2011

New court rules which came into force today appear to strengthen the hand of the press when it comes to challenging reporting restrictions imposed at criminal trials.

-

Ferdinand to appeal kiss and tell privacy ruling

30 September 2011

England footballer launches appeal as he faces £500,000 costs bill after losing Sunday Mirror privacy action over kiss and tell story.

-

Amelia Hill: Met has scuppered state regulation of press

27 September 2011

Amelia Hill, the Guardian journalist questioned by police investigating leaks from the Met’s phone-hacking probe, has thanked Scotland Yard for inadvertently undermining the case for state regulation of the press.

-

Labour mocked for 'ridiculous' call to strike off journalists

27 September 2011

The National Union of Journalists has criticised shadow culture minister Ivan Lewis’s calls for journalists guilty of gross malpractice to be struck off from the profession.

-

Mosley fails in European Court privacy appeal

27 September 2011

Ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley has failed in his bid to get his case to toughen up UK privacy laws referred to the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber.

-

Andy Coulson sues News International for legal fees

26 September 2011

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has launched legal action against the now defunct newspaper's publisher News Group Newspapers "regarding the termination of the payment for his legal action".

-

PCC: FT's reference to Stelios as Greek was not racist

23 September 2011

Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has failed in a bid to argue via the Press Complaints Commission that a Financial Times article about him was r ...

-

Dowlers urge PM not to scrap no win, no fee system

23 September 2011

The family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler have written to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him not to scrap the ‘no win, no fee’ rules which enabled them to take on News International.

-

'No press interest in family court website trial'

22 September 2011

National and regional media and journalists ignored a pilot scheme to publish decisions in family cases dealt with by magistrates courts and county courts, according to a Ministry of Justice report.

-

Top Met officer to be quizzed on Guardian sources grab

21 September 2011

MPs are planning to question a top Scotland Yard officer over the force's attempt - subsequently dropped - to force the Guardian newspaper to dicslose confidential sources for stories relating to the phone-hacking scandal, sources ...

-

Cleared nurse to sue over press coverage

21 September 2011

A nurse cleared of tampering with saline solution at a Stockport hospital is planning to sue national newspapers over prejudicial coverage following her arrest.

-
-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-
-

Advertisement


Insiders' Briefings









-

Advertisement

News Diary

Press Gazette’s diary of upcoming news events, in association with Foresight News.




-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-

Advertisement

-
 
-
Abacus E-media
Abacus e-Media
St. Andrews Court
St. Michaels Road
Portsmouth
PO1 2JH
-

Advertisement

All the Best jobs for Jounalists and PR