Year: 2008

5RB’s Stephen Bate has become the first practising barrister to join CEDR’s Solve Direct mediator panel, a service which allows mediation users to enter into direct deals with selected mediators, with back-up services and quality… Read More »

The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint brought against the Daily Record from Paul Ferris, who was described by the paper as a “gangster”, and his partner Carolyn Cunningham, over the reporting of the… Read More »

Proposed legislation in the New York State legislature would prevent individuals who had obtained libel judgments in more claimant-friendly jurisdictions, such as England and Wales, from enforcing them in the state.   The proposed legislation, introduced by Senate Deputy… Read More »

Actress Sienna Miller has obtained default judgment in her privacy action against Warren Richardson, the photographer who took nude photos of her on a closed film set.   The “highly intrusive” pictures of Miss Miller… Read More »

The Press Complaints Commission has reported a 31% rise in complaints during 2007. The self-regulatory body received 4,320 complaints last year, including 485 complaints about a Daily Mirror comment piece on the McCanns, and 143… Read More »

Seven national newspaper groups have challenged a bid to have parts of the trial of the man accused of murdering writer Allan Chappelow heard in private. The unusual secrecy order would allow witnesses at the trial of… Read More »

The Government has proposed allowing private copying of music and films, allowing parodies of copyright works and relaxing copying restrictions for schools and libraries in a major intellectual property consultation. The process is intended to implement many of… Read More »

OK! magazine has issued a copyright claim against rival celebrity gossip magazine Heat over coverage of Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy. OK!’s North American edition published an exclusive interview with Ms Spears, the younger sister of singer Britney, in which… Read More »

The PCC has upheld a privacy complaint against OK! Magazine in respect of an article about a male celebrity which stated that he had been “spotted at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting” with his friend, the complainant. The… Read More »

A talented junior doctor who was suspended from work for nearly five years has won an apology from Cambridgeshire health officials. The doctor, who can be referred to only as “Z” for legal reasons, was born with a serious and life-threatening… Read More »