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Phone-hacking lawyer takes News Corp action to the US as blogger sues Times

Phone-hacking lawyer Mark Lewis is poised to take legal action against News Corporation in the US, as the long-running scandal moves beyond the UK courts. Taylor Hampton's Lewis is set to arrive in the US this weekend to begin discussions with New York civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel over legal action for three alleged victims of phone-hacking described as a "well-known sports person", a sports person not in the public eye and a US citizen.
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Privacy and injunctions report – steady as she goes on privacy, last chance for non-statutory media regulation

The Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions, set up last July following 'Super-injunction Spring', has finally published its report...
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Flood v Times Newspapers - Supreme Court allows 'Reynolds' appeal

"In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court this week allowed the appeal of Times Newspapers Limited against a decision of the Court of Appeal which had held that held that it could not rely on Reynolds qualified privilege..."
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New EU privacy and data protection laws - implications and key points

Nabarro outlines the implications and key points of new legislation
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Website compliance checklist - steer clear of costly breaches

Steer clear of costly breaches with Wragges' website compliance checklist
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Judge orders Solicitors from Hell site offline

Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowski has been ordered to remove his site from the internet. A decision in the High Court yesterday (15 November) saw Mr Justice Tugendhat order Kordowski to "cease, forthwith, to publish the website solicitorsfromhell.co.uk".The ruling follows a Law Society court action to secure an injunction against the 'Solicitors from Hell' website to protect its members and the public, on the grounds the site was not a credible source of reliable information about solicitors.
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Role models and hypocrites - Max Mosley on tabloids, privacy and the law

The tabloids advance two main arguments for invading privacy to reveal someone's sex life. The first is that their victim is a role model who must be exposed if he has not behaved impeccably. The second is that it's their job to expose hypocrites who mislead the public by saying one thing and doing another. Both arguments are flawed. The role model argument is hopeless. A famous sportsman is undoubtedly a role model when practising his sport. You would not want a famous footballer to foul consistently lest other, lesser footballers followed his example. But he's not a role model in his sex life. Sex is not the reason for his fame nor the reason he's admired. It's irrelevant to his 'role' which is playing football.
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Law Soc chief exec sees Solicitors from Hell slander charge thrown out

A claim of alleged slander brought by Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowski against Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson has been struck out of court. Kordowski had claimed Hudson slandered him in comments he allegedly made to Professor John Flood of the University of Westminster in which, according to a blog published by Flood on 22 July this year, he called Kordowski a "criminal".
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RPC takes lead role on Morrissey's libel dispute with NME

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) and media boutique Russells Solicitors are advising on the a dispute between former Smiths frontman Morrissey and music magazine NME which could see one of the first UK libel cases heard before a jury in recent years. NME has requested to strike out the libel lawsuit, which was brought against the magazine's former editor Conor McNicholas and its publisher IPC Media by Morrissey four years ago.
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Parliamentary committee pushes for libel reforms to go further

The draft Defamation Bill does not go far enough to address the "unacceptably" high costs of libel cases, according to the committee charged with reviewing the bill. In a report issued today (19 October), the committee of six MPs and six peers has recommended that the proposal to promote early dispute resolution outside of court should be taken a step further and made enforceable, with "a presumption that mediation or neutral evaluation will be the norm."
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