“The law is clear, but still misunderstandings abound. Jenni Murray talks to Alison Saunders, head of the Crown Prosecution Service in London, and Lisa Longstaff, Project Coordinator of Women Against Rape.”
BBC Radio 4, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former England manager Steve McClaren failed in a high court bid over the weekend to prevent the Sun publishing a front-page story about an alleged extramarital affair.”
The Guardian, 20th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In the recent decision in UK Coal Mining v IC, Nottinghamshire County Council & Veolia [2012] UKUT 212 AAC, the Upper Tribunal has dismissed an appeal concerned with section 43(2) of FOIA (commercial prejudice): the First-Tier Tribunal (decision EA/2010/0142, on which see our post here) had been entitled to find that only very limited redactions could be made to provisions from a PFI contract for a waste incinerator. Upper Tribunal Judge Wikeley’s decision, while largely fact-specific, illustrates two significant points.”
Panopticon, 17th August 2012
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“In Montford v IC and BBC (EA/2009/0114), the appellant had asked the BBC various questions about its expenditure in relation to Cambridge Media and Environment Program, which researched and planned a programme of seminars that had been running since 2005 at which BBC editorial staff discussed issues such as environmental change and world development, with the objective of improving BBC journalism in those areas.”
Panopticon, 17th August 2012
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“The Metropolitan Police have won access to a witness statement filed by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire relating to who instructed him to intercept PR consultant Nicola Phillips’s voicemail.”
The Independent, 30th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The director of public prosecutions (DPP) stopped his staff dropping the case against Paul Chambers, author of the ‘Twitter joke’ about blowing up Robin Hood airport in South Yorkshire, it has been claimed.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday has been ordered to pay £15,000 in privacy damages after one of its papers published unpixellated pictures of a child whose alleged father is a ‘philandering’ politician.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Statement from Alison Levitt QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP): This statement is made in the interests of transparency and accountability to explain the decisions reached in relation to Operation Weeting.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 24th July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Article 28EC of the EC Treaty on the free movement of goods, applied to standardisation and certification activities of a private law body, where the products certified by that body were considered by national legislation to be compliant with national law and where that restricted the marketing of products which were not certified by that body.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A theoretical physicist who sued the British science journal, Nature, had his case dismissed on Friday after a judge ruled that a news article that criticised him was responsible and honest journalism.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Pressure from former senior Labour figures, including Tony Blair and Jack Straw, as well as Whitehall mandarins, to ‘turn back the clock’ on freedom of information legislation has been decisively rejected by an all-party group of MPs.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Prosecutors aim to decide by the end of this month whether they will bring phone-hacking charges against former News of the World journalists, the director of public prosecutions has told the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has banned publication of details of a divorce case on human rights grounds after the father of the husband claimed it risked causing him embarrassment and ruining his career.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Past defendants of libel claims, including Simon Singh and Ben Goldacre, say proposed changes would not have helped them.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The defamation bill will do little to stop corporations suing individuals and should include a public interest defence.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Foreign criminals jailed for four years or more must be deported regardless of how long they have been in the UK, MPs will tell the courts today.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An anti tax-avoidance campaign group has won permission from the high courts to have a ‘sweetheart’ deal between HMRC and the banking giant Goldman Sachs judicially reviewed for its legality.”
The Guardian, 14th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thanks either to coalition politics or press pressure, proposals for ‘secret’ inquests were last week ceremoniously ditched from the justice and security bill.”
The Guardian, 6th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Charman: [2012] EWHC 1448 (Fam); [2012] WLR (D) 165
“As a general rule documents and other evidence produced in ancillary relief proceedings were not disclosable to third parties outside the proceedings save in an exceptional case and for very good reason, unless the court gave leave. The fact that evidence might be relevant or useful was not of itself a good enough reason to undermine that rule.”
WLR Daily, 29th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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