Media Law and Ethics in the 21st Century: Protecting Free Expression and Curbing Abuses

226 Pages·2014·1.7 MB·English

by  James Lewis

Media Law and Ethics in the 21st Century
Protecting Free Expression and Curbing Abuses
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Media Law and Ethics in the
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Protecting Free Expression and Curbing Abuses
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Contents
Table of Cases vii
Table of Legislation xv
Editors and Contributors xix
Preface by Mark Stephens xxiii
Part I The Legal, Ethical and Editorial Landscape
1 Privacy: A Judicial Perspective 3
David Eady
2 The Rights of Journalism and the Needs of Audiences 35
Onora O’Neill
3 Why We Write: Three Magic Words – ‘The Public Interest’ 46
Alan Rusbridger
Part II The Practitioner’s View – Protecting Free Expression
and Curbing Abuses
4 The Ultimate Balancing Test 63
Pia Sarma
5 Privacy Protection – Luxury Goods or Essential Commodity? 78
Amber Melville-Brown
6 ‘People are so much more interesting than things’:
Protecting Free Expression 104
Gavin Millar QC
7 ‘You say tomato …’: A Comparison of English and US Privacy
Law Principles 128
Robert Balin and Yuli Takatsuki
Part III Confronting Current and Future Challenges
8 Privacy and Free Expression: Competing or Complementary
Rights? 151
Michael Harris and Kirsty Hughes
9 The Internet as a Lens: Concepts of Privacy in Online Spaces 167
Jeffrey Hermes
Index 193
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Table of Cases
United Kingdom
A v B plc [2002] EWCA Civ 337, [2003] QB 195, [2002] 3 WLR 542 69,
112, 154
A v B [2005] EWHC 1651 (QB), [2005] EMLR 36, (2005) 28 (8) IPD 28060
82
AAA v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 2103 (QB), [2013] EMLR
2, [2012] HRLR 31; aff’d [2013] EWCA Civ 554 138
A-G v Guardian Newspapers Ltd (No 2); A-G v Observer Ltd [1990] 1 AC
109, [1988] 3 WLR 776, [1988] 3 All ER 545 25
A-G v Newspaper Publishing plc [1988] Ch 333, [1987] 3 WLR 942, [1987]
3 All ER 276 25
A-G v Times Newspapers Ltd [1974] AC 273, [1973] 3 WLR 298, [1973] 3
All ER 54 31
A-G v Times Newspapers Ltd [1992] 1 AC 191, [1991] 2 WLR 994, [1991] 2
All ER 398 25
AMP v Persons Unknown [2011] EWHC 3454 (TCC), [2011] Info TLR 25,
(2012) 156 (2) SJLB 31 28
ASG v GSA [2009] EWCA Civ 1574 30
Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch 269, [1891–94] All ER Rep 965 17, 18,
19, 20, 116, 146
Browne v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 295, [2008] QB
103, [2007] 3 WLR 289 14, 144
CC v AB [2006] EWHC 3083 (QB), [2007] EMLR 11, [2007] 2 FLR 301
93
CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 3) [2011] EWHC 1326 (QB) 24
CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 4) [2011] EWHC 1334 (QB) 24,
28
CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 5) [2011] EWHC 3099 (QB) 24
Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] UKHL 22, [2004] 2 AC 457, [2004] 2 WLR
1232 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 29, 80, 81, 112, 113, 119, 120, 124, 134,
135, 137, 143, 145
Clarke v Chadburn [1985] 1 WLR 78, [1985] 1 All ER 211, [1984] IRLR 350
26
Comr of Police for the Metropolis v Times Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWHC
2705 (QB), [2014] EMLR 1 105
Contostavlos (Tulisa) v Mendahum (Michael) [2012] EWHC 850 (QB) 96
Coulson v Coulson (1887) 3 TLR 846 18
vii
viii Table of Cases
Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee [2004] UKHL 44, [2005] 1 AC 253, [2004]
3 WLR 918 18, 19
DFT v TFD [2010] EWHC 2335 (QB) 30
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1) [2001] QB 967, [2001] 2 WLR 992, [2002] 1
All ER 289 112, 154
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 3) [2003] EWHC 55 (Ch), [2003] 1 All ER 1087
(Note), [2003] EMLR 29 80
Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 6) [2003] EWHC 786 (Ch), [2003] 3 All ER 996,
[2003] EMLR 31 126
Douglas v Hello! Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 595 96
ETK v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 439, [2011] 1 WLR
1827, [2011] EMLR 11 54
Ferdinand v MGN Ltd [2011] EWHC 2454 (QB) 14, 93, 118, 125, 134,
139, 145
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd [2012] UKSC 11, [2012] 2 AC 273, [2012] 2
WLR 760 23
Fraser v Evans [1969] 1 QB 349, [1968] 3 WLR 1172, [1969] 1 All ER 8
18
Giggs v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 431 (QB), [2013]
EMLR 5 24
Goodwin v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No 3) [2011] EWHC 1437 (QB),
[2011] EMLR 27, [2011] HRLR 31 28, 69
Gray & Coogan v News Group Newspapers & Mulcaire; Phillips v News
Group Newspapers [2012] EWCA Civ 48, [2012] 2 WLR 848, [2012] 2
All ER 74 122
Greene v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2004] EWCA Civ 1462, [2005] QB
972, [2005] 3 WLR 281 17, 19
Guardian News & Media Ltd, Re [2010] UKSC 1, [2010] 2 AC 697, [2010] 2
WLR 325 18, 75
HRH Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1776,
[2008] Ch 57, [2007] 3 WLR 222 14
Harakas v Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange Ltd [1982] 1 WLR 958,
[1982] 2 All ER 701, (1982) 126 SJ 414 18
Hutcheson v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 808, [2012]
EMLR 2, [2011] UKHRR 1329 118
Hutcheson (formerly WER) v Popdog Ltd (formerly REW) [2011] EWCA
Civ 1580, [2012] 1 WLR 782, [2012] 2 All ER 711 25
Imerman v Tchenguiz [2010] EWCA Civ 908, [2011] Fam 116, [2011]
2WLR 592 120, 122
JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 42, [2011] 1 WLR
1645, [2011] 2 All ER 324 29
Jagger v Darling [2005] EWHC 683 (Ch) 93
Table of Cases ix
Jameel v Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl (No 3) [2006] UKHL 44, [2007] 1
AC 359, [2006] 3 WLR 642 69, 145
John v Associated Newspapers [2006] EWHC 1611 (QB), [2006] EMLR 27
97
Kaye v Robertson [1991] FSR 62 133, 153, 154
McClaren v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 2466 (QB), [2012]
EMLR 33, (2012) 109 (35) LSG 20 55, 83, 118, 145
McKennitt v Ash [2006] EWCA Civ 1714, [2008] QB 73, [2007] 3 WLR 194
13, 16, 66, 97, 114, 139
Maxwell v Pressdram [1987] 1 WLR 298, [1987] 1 All ER 656, (1987) 84
LSG 1148 6, 18
Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2008] EWHC 687 (QB) 27, 91
Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2008] EWHC 1777 (QB), [2008]
EMLR 20, (2008) 158 NLJ 1112 141, 146
Murray v Big Pictures (UK) Ltd; Murray v Express Newspapers plc [2008]
EWCA Civ 446, [2009] Ch 481, [2008] 3 WLR 1360 23, 98, 115, 120,
137, 138
Ntuli v Donald [2010] EWCA Civ 1276, [2011] 1 WLR 294, [2011] CP Rep
13 30, 115, 144
OPQ v BJM [2011] EWHC 1059 (QB), [2011] EMLR 23 53
Polanski v Condé Nast Publications Ltd [2010] UKHL 10, [2005] 1 WLR
637, [2005] 1 All ER 945 93
R v Central Independent Television plc [1994] Fam 192, [1994] 3 WLR 20,
[1994] 3 All ER 641 153
R v Broadcasting Standards Commission, ex p BBC [2001] QB 885, [2000]
3 WLR 1327, [2000] 3 All ER 989 7
R (on the application of Purdy) v DPP [2009] UKHL 45, [2010] 1 AC 345,
[2009] 3 WLR 403 23
R (on the application of Wood) v Comr of Police for the Metropolis [2009]
EWCA Civ 414, [2010] 1 WLR 123, [2009] 4 All ER 951 65, 137
R v IRC, ex p Kingston Smith [1996] STC 1210, 70 TC 264 26
RJW & SJW v Guardian News & Media Ltd [2009] EWHC 2540 (QB) 29
RST v UVW [2009] EWHC 2448 (QB), [2010] EMLR 13, [2010] 1 FL 950 30
Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd [2001] 2 AC 127, [1999] 3 WLR 1010,
[1999] 4 All ER 609 23, 66, 105
RocknRoll v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWHC 24 (Ch) 54, 138
S (a child) (identification: restrictions on publication), In re [2004] UKHL
47, [2005] 1 AC 593, [2004] 3 WLR 1129 10, 13, 14, 18, 19, 21, 65,
88, 113, 114, 117, 119, 139
Spelman v Express Newspapers [2012] EWHC 239 (QB) 14, 82, 83
Stedman, Re; sub nom East Sussex County Council’s Application, Re
[2009] EWHC 935 (Fam), [2009] 2 FLR 852, [2010] 1 FCR 567 27