Keep your contacts on your own pc/mac and create the list with your own software. That’s the best advice following a court action against a journalist who has been told to hand over his contact list to his ex-employer. Junior Isles’ contacts are the property of his ex-employer PennWell. Isles walked out of PennWell at Read More
Month: June 2007
Google tangled up in libel
Fate has dealt another blow to Google following the Viacom copyright action. This time it may be hit by the UK libel laws, that chilling tangle of case law and statute which only the English and Welsh legal system could invent. Dotworlds, a UK-based Internet service company, may sue Google in the UK courts for Read More
Hug an Appeal Court Judge today
Some days you just want to give those Court of Appeal judges a great big hug. This is one of those days. Those lovely judges have backed up a fair comment defence for a review of an opera in the Evening Standard. The composer, Keith Burstein, took to his lawyers over a review of his Read More
I love English and Welsh libel
F**k Off, S**t and P**t, all in the same story I love English and Welsh libel. For one, I earn part of my living training journalists and publishers in its pitfalls. For another it throws up such weird cases. The latest is the MP, Martyn Jones, who was accused of telling a security guard to Read More
Harry, William, their Mum and privacy
Channel Four 1; The Princes:0 It was good to see that Channel Four did not buckle under the open pressure Princes Harry and William exerted over the documentary about Diana’s death. The whole affair had some quaint sidelines to it. Not the least of them was having a senior aide view the documentary and then Read More
Why did it take them so long? The PCC ruling and Ruth Kelly
I suppose it was decorum which made the Press Complaints Commission deliberate so long over Ruth Kelly’s objection to a Mirror article. She complained to the PCC about an article published on January 8th. It said she had sent her child with learning difficulties to a private school. This was an unnecessary intrusion into the Read More