Social Media in UK Law

  • Richard v British Broadcasting Corporation
    • Chancery Division
    • 18 Julio 2018
    ... ... from a confidential source and approached SYP (in the form of a media officer, Miss Carrie Goodwin) about it. That led to a meeting with her and ... been identified and risked facing physical attacks and attacks in social media. (See paragraph 2.37). Both he and Commissioner Hogan-Howe gave as ... ...
  • R (on the application of Lord Carlile of Berriew QC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 Noviembre 2014
    ... ... in France or a third country, or contact by video-link or other media). While it is argued by the claimants that there is an urgent need ... Department [2002] QB 1391 , where the leader of a religious, social and political group was excluded because his presence would present a ... ...
  • Khuja (formerly known as PNM) v Times Newspapers Ltd and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Julio 2017
    ... ... Adam Wolanski ... (Instructed by Newquest Media Group Ltd Legal Department) ... (1) Times Newspapers Limited ... (2) ... not originally been taken seriously by the police or Oxfordshire social services, and had not received the protection to which they were entitled ... ...
  • Re BBC
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 08 Mayo 2014
    ... ... The answers to these questions are of importance to courts, media organisations and individual litigants throughout the United Kingdom ... who might be affected by a section 11 order (including bloggers, social media users and internet-based organisations) before such an order was ... ...
  • Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Octubre 1999
    ... ... is available to everyone, and is of particular importance to the media. The freedom of expression protected by this defence has long been ... person who makes a communication has an interest or a duty, legal, social, or moral, to make it to the person to whom it is made, and the person to ... ...
  • Cairns v Modi
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 Octubre 2012
    ... ... visits – something that would have set off alarm bells at Social Services as he had been convicted in the 1970s in Leicester for raping a ... damage than repeated publication and consequent publicity on social media. By the same token, rapid publication of the withdrawal of a defamatory ... ...
  • Kennedy v Information Commissioner and another (Secretary of State for Justice and Others intervening) [SC]
    • Supreme Court
    • 26 Marzo 2014
    ... ... Christopher Knight ... (Instructed by Media Legal Defence Initiative and Campaign for Freedom of Information) ... an information monopoly – with the exercise of the functions of a social watchdog, like the press, rather than a denial of a general right of ... ...
  • Re A (Capacity: Social Media and Internet Use: Best Interests)
    • Court of Protection
    • 21 Febrero 2019
  • TYU v ILA Spa Ltd
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    ... ... Group Newspapers Ltd [ 2016 ] ICR 801 , EAT Guardian News and Media Ltd, In re [2010] UKSC 1 ; [ 2010 ] 2 AC 697 ; [ 2010 ] 2 WLR ... been widely published in other countries and via the internet and social media, the Supreme Court confirmed that engagement of the right did not ... ...
  • R (Animal Defenders International) v Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 2008
    ... ... The test of necessity is one of pressing social need (para 67), and while member states have a certain margin of appreciation this is subject to European supervision. The question (para 68) is ... ...
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