New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
For some litigants, the award of 60,000 pounds and a declaration that a liking for sado-masochistic orgies with prostitutes is broadly nobody else's business would have been a satisfactory outcome. But not all litigants are 68-year-old...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
FIA President Max Mosley is to ask the European Court of Human Rights for stricter media privacy laws in the wake of the News of the World's damaging publication of his involvement in a sex scandal earlier this year.
Bartholomew's Notes on Religion (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
A couple of interesting free speech cases concerning the Guardian newspaper. Hold the Front Page noted a couple of days ago: Amid the UN Committee on Human Rights’ recent criticism of our claimant-friendly libel laws, it is reassuring to see judges taking a robust line against dubious claims…Tesco brought libel and malicious falsehood claims against The Guardian [...]
Shane Richmond (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Defamatory comments on internet bulletin boards are more likely to be slanderous than libelous, a High Court judge ruled last month . The judgment came just as I was going on holiday, which is my excuse for missing it until now, but it raises interesting questions for comments on newspaper sites. First, though, the judgment itself. In
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has urged the sport to forget about the controversy surrounding Max Mosley.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Mr Justice Eady, whose verdict in the Max Mosley privacy case has cast the whole of our red-top press into limbo, guards his own privacy pretty well. His Who's Who entry doesn't mention any recreations (presumably not S&M) or even his address. Yet, the Mosley decision could have a devastating effect on papers like News of the World, which rely on sexual disclosures as a large part of their raison...
Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The 'consumption state' that collects and uses our personal information mostly makes life easier, but will it ultimately create an inhuman dystopia? 19 Aug 2008 8:36 AM
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Kimberly Lee has probably never heard of the Honourable Mr Justice Eady but the 65-year-old High Court judge may have just ended her career.
open... (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
A nice outbreak of sanity, here : A High Court judge ruled this week that defamatory comments on internet forums are more like slander than libel, a judgement that could make success in such cases more difficult. Mr Justice Eady found that posts on internet discussion groups such as website bulletin boards are closer to spoken conversations than to published articles, being casual and characterised...
IT Law in Ireland (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
In Smith v. ADVFN Plc & Others Mr Justice Eady of the English High Court recently showed a keen insight into the world of bulletin boards by noting that users are prone to reacting in the heat of the moment, not thinking about what they are doing, and saying the first thing that comes into their heads. A statement of the blindingly obvious? Perhaps. But the underlying point is important. A perennial...
TotalF1.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Mr Justice Eady's ruling in the Max Mosley sex case has established a new privacy law in the UK, based on precedent and it seems that this could, as feared by the media, be used to stop reporting of people's private lives.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has won a round in his bid to have his libel case - over a claim that he was responsible for the murder of former agent Alexander Litvinenko - heard in the UK.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
FIA president Max Mosley insists "no grown-up person gives the slightest damn" about what he gets up to in his private life.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Former England and Manchester United star Andrew Cole wins a libel case against a newspaper which claimed he beat his wife.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Company refuses to accept apology from Guardian for errors in earlier article about retailers' tax tactics
