ReachLocal UK Limited v. Jamie Bennett and Others
Defamation Act 1952 Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch 269. Banco de Portugal v Waterlow [1932] AC 452 at 506 Clarke v Bain [2008] EWHC…
Leroy v. France
Kablis v. Russia: prior restraint of online campaigning for a peaceful, but unauthorised demonstration violated Article 10 ECHR
This post originally appeared on the Strasbourg Observers blog and is reproduced with permission and thanks On 30 April 2019, in Kablis v. Russia, the European Court’s…
High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom submits amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in ‘El Universo’ criminal defamation case
The High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom submitted an amicus curiae petition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Case…
EU silences Russian state media: a step in the wrong direction
This blog was originally published by Inforrm’s Blog and is reproduced with permission and thanks. Shortly after the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022,…
Global Trends and Cases in Global Freedom of Expression and Information
I was asked to reflect on ‘important’ cases in the last year or so – and to indicate why they’re important; to indicate trends; and…
Pre-trial detention for terrorist charges in Turkey: the case against Cumhuriyet’s journalist Ahmet Şık
Given the daily arrests in Turkey, and the increasing purges against critics and opponents for alleged anti-terrorism offences, it is worth considering the judicial proceedings…
Bond v. Floyd
The ruling marked a departure from earlier legal doctrines regarding the scope of the First Amendment concerning antiwar activism and free speech. Unlike previous rulings,…
Malaysia and South East Asia: Freedom of Expression and Information
General overview of South East Asia – a region of approximately 600 million people Table 1 No Country Legal System 1 Malaysia English common law/personal…
Eon v. France
Though the judgment of the majority in the present matter does expand expression on merits, the extent to which it does so could have been enlarged had the reasons offered by Judge Power-Forde’s in her partly Dissenting Opinion – on the applicant’s entitlement to more than a mere moral victory due to the anxiety suffered by him on being convicted for exercising his freedom of expression and on the need for the affirmation of the principles established in Colombani and Others v. France [ECHR] (2002) 51279/99 – formed part of the reasoning and decision put forth by the majority.