Companion website for
COMPARATIVE MEDIA LAW & ETHICS
by TIM CROOK
Published by Routledge on 15th December 2009
For details of the book, please visit Routledge.
Author's profile at Goldsmiths, University of London
Privacy Law
The Privacy rights of Individuals caught up in public events. Contrasting
US and European media lawA summary of the UK privacy case of Max Mosley v News of the World 2008
A summary of the US privacy Supreme Court case in Florida Star v B.J.F. 1989
A summary of the US privacy Supreme Court case in Bartnicki et al v Vopper
et al 2001European Convention on Human Rights: Privacy V. Freedom of Expression
Debate on wikipedia administrators’ bulletin board
The impact of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on UK law, politics and society.
Important ECHR case Z v Finland 1997- privacy of HIV positive people in court rulings.
In the Maxine Carr case at page 258 the book states that ‘The police did not allege that she had any knowledge of the crimes that he had committed.’ The intention behind this sentence was to emphasize that the police did not accuse her of having any involvement in the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. It is a fact that during the trial at the Central Criminal Court she did face the charge of ‘assisting an offender,’ and the jury acquitted her of this charge. When summing up the judge, Mr Justice Moses, had directed the jury that when considering the charge of assisting an offender: ‘The prosecution must make you sure that she knew or believed at the time she told the lies that he was guilty of murder or manslaughter.’
Daily Mail’s report of the judge’s summing up.
The case against Maxine Carr. BBC Online report from the trial 17th December 2003.In January 2010 there have been 3 significant UK cases giving priority to freedom of expression over privacy. This may be part of a trend involving the British courts recognising the need to assert and support the idea that there should be a ‘particular regard for freedom of expression’ as indicated by Section 12.4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and a greater importance given to media rights as part of the consideration of freedom of expression as a pressing social need and democratic necessity.
In LNS and Persons Unknown he lifted an injunction on an injunction (otherwise known as a superinjunction) that enabled the media to report an allegation that the captain of the Chelsea and England soccer teams, John Terry had had an extra-marital affair with the girlfriend of a former team-mate.
