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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
25 September 2014
Media reporting lessons from the Cooper-Hohn divorce
Article first published in Wealth Briefing on 25 September 2014.
Media reporting of divorce financial cases is troublesome. It is difficult for the parties, who are often high-profile as well as high-net-worth, their advisers and the media.
2 September 2014
Legal update: Trial by jury in defamation claims - the exception rather than the rule
Tim Yeo v Times Newspapers Ltd [2014] EWHC 2853 (QB)
This case concerned a libel action brought by the claimant Tim Yeo MP (Y) against the defendant, The Times Newspapers Ltd (T).
15 August 2014
Defamation claimants won’t get the “benefit” of the doubt under new law
Since implementation of the new Defamation Act 2013 earlier this year, legal commentators have been anxiously awaiting the first judgments on the new provisions. Will they provide us with clarity?
5 August 2014
Legal update: Businessman granted leave to serve injunction proceedings on Google out of the jurisdiction
Last Thursday, in the case of Hegglin v Google Inc. & ORS (2014) QBD, the High Court granted a businessman leave to serve proceedings under the Data Protection Act 1998 out of the jurisdiction on Google, seeking injunctive relief in respect of defamatory comments posted on websites by an anonymous individual.
5 August 2014
Revenge porn – no need to change the law
Last week’s report of the House of Lords Communications Committee has once again highlighted the increasing problem of “revenge porn”. Revenge porn arises when persons, often ex-partners, post sexually explicit pictures and videos on websites and social media networks to try to embarrass and humiliate the ex-partner following a break-up.
We have addressed the question of online abuse and harassment in a previous blog – “Anti Social Media: how the Law can Tackle Online Abuse and Harassment”.