5RB Talks 2015: Cardiff
The second of 5RB’s 2015 series of talks took place on 12 March in Cardiff. 5RB’s William Bennett, Christina Michalos and David Hirst spoke. William Bennett gave an overview of the Defamation Act 2013 and… Read More »
5RB at the Big Voice London Moots
5RB’s Godwin Busuttil and Felicity McMahon were amongst the judges for the second round of the Big Voice London Mooting Competition 2015. Teams consisted of one BPTC student and one sixth-form student, and each student… Read More »
Privacy injunction statistics published
The Ministry of Justice has released its quarterly civil justice statistics report, which amongst other matters records the number of privacy injunctions applied for, awarded or continued over the period. The bulletin records that one… Read More »
Supreme Court: police retention of data lawful
The Supreme Court has allowed the appeals of two individuals who claimed that the police retention of electronic data about them on a searchable database breached their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on… Read More »
N-word text appeal dismissed
The bid by former professional footballer and Kick It Out ambassador Paul Elliott to have the libel claim against him by fellow former professional Richard Rufus struck out by the Court of Appeal has failed…. Read More »
‘Revenge Porn’ becomes a specific criminal offence
On 12 February 2015 the Criminal Justice and Courts Act received Royal Assent. The new Act makes covers a number of areas of the law, but of particular interest to media lawyers will be the… Read More »
5RB Talks 2015: Bristol
5RB‘s series of 2015 talks kicked off on 12 February in Bristol. 5RB‘s Jacob Dean, Felicity McMahon and Julian Santos spoke about the Defamation Act 2013 and developments since it came into force, how to… Read More »
Supreme Court hears costs appeal
The Supreme Court will hear the residual part of the appeal in Coventry v Lawrence this coming Monday (the 9th February). Although the underlying appeal concerns a nuisance case (Lawrence v Fen Tigers and ors… Read More »
ICO requires changes to Google privacy policy
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has required Google to sign a formal undertaking to improve its privacy policy and provide users with more and clearer information about how it uses personal data gathered from its… Read More »
Court of Appeal upholds Rihanna passing off claim
The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court decision in a claim for passing off brought by the singer Rihanna against Topshop. The dispute centered around a t-shirt which featured a photograph of the… Read More »
ICO finds in favour of campaigning charity
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has decided that the work of the charity Global Witness can come within the scope of the “journalistic exemption” in the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). Global Witness, which investigates… Read More »
OPO v MLA to begin in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear the appeal in OPO v MLA on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th January 2015. The panel consists of Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Clarke, Lord Wilson and Lord Toulson. In its… Read More »
Christina Michalos appointed to Gray’s Inn Bench
5RB is pleased to announce that Christina Michalos has been elected a Bencher of Gray’s Inn. The highest level of Inn membership is that of Master of the Bench and the Benchers form the governing body of… Read More »
CQC apologises to Jill Finney
The CQC has settled the libel and Human Rights Act claims brought against it by its former Deputy Chief Executive Jill Finney following a mediation last week. The CQC has published the following apology on… Read More »
Times costs appeal in Flood rejected
The Court of Appeal has rejected the appeal brought by Times Newspapers Ltd against the costs ruling made by Nicola Davies J in Gary Flood’s favour at the conclusion of his claim for libel. The claim arose… Read More »
‘Plebgate’ Judgment
Today Mr Justice Mitting gave judgment on the preliminary issue of whether the words complained of were substantially true in the claims between Andrew Mitchell MP, News Group Newspapers publishers of The Sun, and PC… Read More »
Desmond Browne QC named silk of the year
Desmond Browne QC, joint Head of Chambers at 5RB, was awarded Silk of the Year in the IP, IT and Media category at the Legal 500 Awards ceremony held on the 26th November 2014. “The Legal… Read More »
Man held in contempt by Gibraltar court
The Supreme Court of Gibraltar has found that a claim brought by Terence Ewing against the Sunday Times in respect of a matter already litigated in three other jurisdictions was a serious abuse of process… Read More »
Apology and damages in “serious financial loss” claim
Hodge Jones & Allen LLP (HJA) on Monday 24 November 2014 received an apology and substantial compensation in respect of an article published in June 2014 on the front page of The Times. This is… Read More »
Adam Speker at #AvoidtheScandal
5RB’s Adam Speker was one of four panellists who spoke at Kingsley Napley’s Private Lives, Public Events event on Tuesday evening. The event was called Everyone loves a scandal… But what if it is about… Read More »