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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Imitation: Not Always the Best Form of Flattery

A little story in the Guardian set the ‘Wryly Comic’ light flashing on the M Law Media Watch Switchboard this morning. Please read the original article here. Fact yet again is stranger than fiction. It appears that German World Champion and Manchester United flagship

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TV FORMATS & COPYRIGHT: WHAT’S THE X-FACTOR?

The extent to which you can protect a TV format has long been a muddy area of UK law. The high profile spat between Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell was perhaps to decide – or at least provide guidance on – this area of law once and for all. Fuller took Cowell

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