Defamation Act – a Win for the Press?

The Press may be able to escape the financial cost of defamation, and reap the financial reward, simply by issuing an early apology.  This has serious implications for the new press regulatory body, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (“IPSO”), established this week.

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Cooke v MGN – the Costs Verdict

On 13 August 2014 Mr Justice Bean handed down his judgment in the case of Cooke

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Birmingham and Paris: No-Go Zones

By way of brief intro, Fox News, in its traditionally comical yet terrifying reportage of world events,  suggested that certain areas of Paris, and the city of Birmingham, were ‘no-go zones’ for non-muslims.  The notion of Birmingham being a no-go zone wryly tickled the twittersphere,

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FA Work Permit Reforms kick in as transfer window opens

After England’s early exit from the Under 21 European Championships, the familiar ‘excuse’ of too many foreign players in England was a regular soundbite in the media for a few days.  This is a knee-jerk too-easy response

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KP Nuts About Exclusion, but is there any Remedy?

There has been much said about the Strauss/Graves/Pietersen exclusion debacle, and we will not have heard the end of it yet. 

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Three Legal Conundrums in the Press This Week

Three little stories in the press this week have posed what we believe are some interesting legal issues. Whilst the stories are all international, we approach them from a UK law perspective

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Physician Heal Thyself…

What at first may have appeared as a familiar attempt from Jose Mourinho to deflect focus from Chelsea’s opening

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