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Kiss ‘n’ tell and snatched photos

5RB’s Desmond Browne QC addressed the Chancery and Professional Negligence Bar Associations at their seminar on privacy and confidentiality held at Lincoln’s Inn this evening.   Mr Browne’s speech, entitled “Kiss & Tell Stories and Snatched… Read More »

Italian magazine wins in High Court

Libel claims brought against L’Espresso, an Italian magazine, were dismissed today on various grounds following a 3 day trial in the High Court.   Two companies from the Atlantis World gaming group brought claims in… Read More »

C4 Dispatches wins ‘fakery’ damages

The makers of Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation Undercover Mosque have won a public apology and six-figure libel settlement from West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service after false accusations of TV fakery.   The settlement followed… Read More »

Hurley and Grant win privacy claim

Actress Elizabeth Hurley, her husband Arun Nayur, and actor Hugh Grant today received an apology, £25,000 in damages and payment of their legal costs from photographic agencies Big Pictures Ltd and Eliot Press SARL for… Read More »

Survey reveals bloggers unaware of libel risks

Only 5 per cent of internet users are clear on their legal responsibilities, a new survey for solicitors DLA Piper has found, despite the increasing use of blogs, message boards and social networking sites. The survey, of… Read More »

ITV pays £5.6 million price for phone in scandal

In the latest development in the “phone in” scandal  the broadcast regulator Ofcom announced today that it was imposing fines totalling £5,675,000 in respect of various programmes broadcast on ITV.   The programmes found by Ofcom to… Read More »

Pushchair privacy appeal succeeds

The Court of Appeal today handed down its eagerly awaited judgment in the privacy claim involving photographs of J. K. Rowling’s son. The Court allowed the Claimant’s appeal, overturning the August 2007 decision to strike the claim out, finding him to have an… Read More »

Conference5RB 2008 Launched

The two years since the last 5RB Conference have seen important developments in media and sports law as the Courts have wrestled with the difficult balance to be struck between the rights of individuals to… Read More »

Air India chief wins libel trial

The jury in the trial of a libel action brought by an Air India executive over a 2006 Evening Standard article entitled ‘Sex Shame of Airline Chief’ returned its verdict this afternoon, finding in favour… Read More »

Football manager wins libel damages

The manager of Aston Villa and former Northern Ireland international Martin O’Neill has received substantial undisclosed damages and an apology from the publishers of the website football365.com for false allegations that he had “tapped up”… Read More »

Charity regulator reports privileged

The High Court has today handed down a judgment confirming that a defence of qualified privilege is available to a Defendant who publishes material on its website providing it is under a duty to do so and the… Read More »

OFT pays out over milk pricing investigation

The supermarket Morrisons has accepted £100,000 from the Office of Fair Trading after the regulator claimed that the supermarket had broken rules that apply to the market for dairy products and been warned over anti-competitive… Read More »

Air India executive libel trial begins

The trial of a libel action brought by an Air India executive over a 2006 Evening Standard article entitled ‘Sex Shame of Airline chief’ began today.   Associated Newspapers, which publishes the London newspaper, along… Read More »

BBC wins Doctor Who copyright case

BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s commercial arm, has successfully defended a copyright infringement claim brought against it over a book it had published on Doctor Who’s famous enemies, the Daleks. Publishers JHP, whose managing director Paul Fishman was the… Read More »

GMTV star wins libel damages

GMTV presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star Kate Garraway received substantial undisclosed damages and an apology from the publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror today for false allegations that she was having an affair… Read More »

Mosley refused ‘orgy’ injunction

Mr Justice Eady has today ruled that News Group Newspapers, publishers of the News of the World, can show edited footage of FIA chief Max Mosley engaging in sexual activities with five prostitutes.   Mr… Read More »

Actor wins ‘dog theft’ libel apology

Actress Kathleen Turner, her publishers and Associated Newspapers Ltd have apologised to actor Nicholas Cage for allegations about him published in Ms Turner’s memoirs, extracts of which were serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail… Read More »