Questions from last week:

• Talking to people in hospital?
• Must identify as a journalist and get permission from hospital authorities.
• What's the difference between an assignment in copyright law and license
• Assignment: complete transfer from A to B.
• License: permission being granted to use a copyrighted work for a certain purpose.
• Where would you go on appeal of fact from the Magistrate's Court?
• Appeal would lie to the Crown Court.
• On matters of law, i.e., an adjudication on a law, matter is appealed to the Divisional court of the High Court.
• What court would a Lord Justice sit in?
• Court of Appeal
• Public interest: a defined concept within the industry regulators
• What are the rules regarding reporting pregnancy?
• Within PCC, shouldn't refer to an individual's pregnancy up to 12 weeks, unless that information's already in the public domain.
• Adjudications: Danny Minogue, Charlotte Church

For next week:

• What are these orders and when are appropriate?
• §4(2) order
• §39 order
• §11 order
• What's the difference between commonlaw qualified privilege and statutory qualified privilege?
• In the ECHR, what does article 2 protect; what does §12(3) of the Human Rights Act say about injunctions?
• What are the rules about reporting court cases that take place in the Youth Court?

This week in law

• PCC is no more! Will be replaced by... something.
• Jeffries case: Mirror and Sun were prosecuted for contempt; Mirror sought appeal and was turned down

Confidentiality/Privacy

Major cases

• Douglas v. Hallo (2000)
• Theakston v. MGN Ltd (2002): photographs
• Peck v. UK (2003): privacy in a public place
• Princess Caroline von Hannover v. Germany (2004)
• Naomi Campbell v. MGN Ltd (2004) (the major case re: privacy)
• McKennitt v. Ash (2005)
• Murray v. Big Pictures (2008)
• Max Mosley v. News Group Newspapers Ltd (2008)
• LNS v. Persons Unknown (2010)
• Super injunctions
• Ferdinand v. MGN Ltd (2011)
• Spelman v. Express Newspapers Ltd
• Princess Caroline von Hannover (2012)
• Human Rights Act §12(3)

The Right to Life

• Article 2 -- Everyone's right to life should be protected by law. Everyone's life should be protected by the law, except in the case of capital punishment.
• An absolute right; not a qualified right in the sense it isn't balanced with another right. "Trumps all."
• Venables and Thompson v. News Group Newspapers Ltd (2001)
• Two youths found guilty in murder of a young boy. Question was if identifiable after release; court was asked to prevent injunction after they reach age of majority in order to protect right to life. Courts came down in favour of individuals; Art. 2 allowed courts to grant injunction preventing identification ever.
• Maxine Carr v. News Group Newspapers Ltd (2004)
• Involved with a murder case in that she gave a false alibi for her boyfriend. Was granted injunction to prevent her from being identified given she was being sent death threats.