Year: 2008

A judge yesterday dismissed an application by the Crown Prosecution Service to have parts of the royal blackmail trial heard in secret.   The trial, in which two men are accused of blackmailing a member… Read More »

American entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson and his company Las Vegas Sands Corp have settled their long-running libel action against Associated Newspapers brought over allegations published in the Daily Mail which centred on claims linked to the… Read More »

The Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers today published prominent front page apologies to Gerry and Kate McCann over a string of articles alleging that they were responsible for the death of their daughter Madeleine…. Read More »

Channel 4 last night broadcast an interview with British mercenary Simon Mann after Mann’s family failed in their bid to injunct the programme last Friday.   The family obtained a without notice injunction the previous… Read More »

A Belfast newspaper which ran a review slating a local restaurant has won its appeal against a jury verdict and the £25,000 award of damages. In 2000 the Irish News published a review of a pizza… Read More »

The Press Complaints Commission intends to examine the use of material obtained from social networks, like MySpace and Facebook, by the print media.The regulatory body will examine the grey area that surrounds the extent to which newspapers… Read More »

The privacy row involving photographs of Harry Potter author, J. K. Rowling’s son, goes to the Court of Appeal today.   In August 2007 Mr Justice Patten, in the Chancery Division, granted a strike out application… Read More »

A petition brought by Christian Voice, an evangelical Christian organisation, seeking to overturn a High Court ruling preventing a private blasphemous libel prosecution against the BBC and theatrical producers of Jerry Springer – The Opera… Read More »

The Defendant in a libel claim brought by the husband of the daughter of the former King of Romania has today been granted permission to appeal against a finding that the publication was not protected… Read More »

The High Court trial of the libel action brought by a former spokesman for the head of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales against Associated Newspapers over an article in the Daily Mail has ended with the jury being unable to… Read More »

Lord Falconer yesterday called for action to be taken to reduce the risk of news articles written before the commencement of criminal trials influencing their outcomes. He proposed that publishers should be made to remove archived pages which contain prejudicial material… Read More »

The practice of including watermarks, usually in the form of tiny, barely visible yellow dots, on documents produced by common computer printers may be unlawful, according to Franco Frattini, the vice-president of the European Commission. The ‘forensic… Read More »

Five witnesses who gave evidence for former Scottish Socialist party leader Tommy Sheridan in his libel victory against the News of the World in August 2006 have been charged with perjury. The MSP’s wife Gail… Read More »

A Birmingham pharmacist has failed in the slander claim he had brought against a fellow member of his Sikh Community Centre.   The two men were members of the Ravidassia Sikh Community Centre in Darlaston, Birmingham. At… Read More »

Kaupthing Bank, its Executive Chairman, Sigurdur Einarsson, and two subsidaries have settled their libel action against the Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet. The companies and Mr Einarsson brought proceedings over a series of articles in English and… Read More »

Lawyers acting for one of the principal defence witnesses in a libel case due to be tried next week have obtained an order that her identity must be protected from disclosure when she gives evidence…. Read More »

5RB hosted its annual charity pub quiz at the Bung Hole yesterday evening, to raise funds for the Bar Pro Bono Unit and the Free Representation Unit (FRU). Teams from leading media organisations and solicitors firms entered the competition… Read More »

The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed Lisa Jeynes’s appeal against Eady J’s order striking out her case against News Group Newspapers and News Group Magazines Limited.   Miss Jeynes, a former Big Brother contestant, had complained… Read More »

Two British National Party general election candidates who lost a libel action over an article published in anti-fascist magazine Searchlight have today been refused permission to appeal to the House of Lords. Eady J held in… Read More »

Low cost airline Ryanair have been sued by French President Sarkozy and his girlfriend Carla Bruni over an advert placed in the French media on the same day as the airline dismissed the UK advertising… Read More »