Elected representative have been denied privileged access to the House of Commons. Is censorship a factor? Index on Censorship reports
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An unlikely champion
Geert Wilders visit today to Westminster is a small blow against censorship, says Oliver Kamm
Privacy: courts do not keep records of injunction
An answer to a parliamentary question by Paul Farrelly MP has revealed that the high court does not keep a record of the number of injunctions granted against the press. In the current edition of The Economist, media lawyer Mark Stephens says he...
California libel tourism law enacted
The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, yesterday signed a law that will allow the state's courts to refuse to enforce British libel judgments. The new law effectively negates the practice of libel tourism. The California legislation now...
Chiropractors allege malicious attack in Singh libel case
Simon Singh, the science writer who yesterday (Oct 14) won the right to appeal a preliminary judgment in a case brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, has been accused of "maliciously" attacking the organisation. In a...
Turkey: EU criticises attacks on Pamuk
The European Union on 14 October called on Turkey to shield Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk from court cases undermining freedom of expression. A week before the European Commission released its annual progress report on Turkey, a Turkish...
Stalin’s grandson loses libel claim
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has lost a libel case against newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Dzhugashvili alleged that an article describing his late grandfather as a "bloodthirsty cannibal" defamed Stalin's "honour...
Simon Singh wins leave to appeal in BCA libel case
A court ruling today affirmed science writer Simon Singh’s right to free expression. It grants him leave to appeal Mr Justice Eady’s ruling against him in a libel action brought by the British Chiropractic Association, reports Padraig Reidy
A gag too far
Carter-Ruck’s attempt to muzzle coverage of its client Trafigura backfired spectacularly when it sought to gag reporting on parliament, reports Maria Margaronis
British Wilders ban “wrong”, tribunal reports
The UK's Asylum and Immigration Tribunal has ruled that then-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was wrong to ban controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders entry to the United Kingdom. Read more here