Media Law Cases & Entertainment Laws in the UK
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MGN Ltd v United Kingdom - 39401/04 [2011] ECHR 66 18/01/2011  -  Order to pay Naomi Campbell’s success fee was unjustified interference with Mirror’s Article 10 rights... more...
Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2011] EWHC 159 (QB) 04/02/2011  -  No ‘honest comment’ defence to malicious falsehood... more...
JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd (Rev 1) [2011] EWCA Civ 42 31/01/2011  -  An appeal was allowed, holding that, where a well-known sportsman had obtained an injunction restraining publication of a story, on the facts of the case, the public interest and the interests of the claimant would be better served by an order granting anonymity but allowing the publication of limited... more...
JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2010] EWHC 2818 (QB) 05/11/2010  -  Open justice justified naming of privacy claimant... more...
JXF v York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2010] EWHC 2800 (QB) 04/11/2010  -  Child receiving substantial damages granted anonymity to protect him from fortune hunters and thieves... more...
Gray v UVW [2010] EWHC 2367 (QB) 21/10/2010  -  Anonymity of privacy claimants a matter for the court, not the parties... more...
Saaristo v Finland, European Court of Human Rights, Application no. 184/06 ([2010] ECHR 1497)  -  Fine and award of damages and costs for invasion of privacy of presidential candidate’s communications officer held to be violation of Article 10 right to freedom of expression... more...
Watkins v Woolas [2010] EWHC 2702 (QB) 05/11/2010  -  MP convicted of illegal practice for publishing statements which he had no reasonable belief to be true... more...
Sanoma Uitgevers BV v Netherlands, European Court of Human Rights, Application no. 38224/03  -  Requiring the disclosure of journalistic source material without independent review was in breach of Article 10... more...
AMM v HXW [2010] EWHC 2457 (QB) 07/10/2010  -  Anonymous privacy injunction granted where no public interest and details of nature of information already public knowledge... more...
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