Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest

ISBN-13: 9780199685806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 448 str.

Gavin Millar Qc; Andrew Scott

Opis

This pioneering work draws together the law and other regulatory rules that relate to newsgathering. Written in the post-Leveson environment, each chapter considers a specific newsgathering practice, and covers ethics, (self-) regulatory rules, common law and statutory oversight.

In addition to covering the law of England and Wales, the work draws on the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and applicable EU law.

Written by highly-regarded authors Gavin Millar QC and Dr Andrew Scott, this is the first text to cover the full range of newsgathering issues from a legal perspective.

Recenzje

Here is a book that by turns, will fascinate, inform, caution and probably worry a great many editors, journalists and their legal advisers. As a first edition, it will almost undoubtedly emerge as the definitive work of reference on the legal complexities governing the newsgathering process — including the protections as well as the pitfalls ... Practitioners, especially media lawyers, not to mention editors and journalists should all have a copy.

O autorze

Gavin Millar QC is a barrister at Matrix Chambers who has a broad practice spanning media, information, public, criminal, employment and discrimination law. Gavin is a noted specialist in all areas of media law including defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, publishing contempts and reporting restrictions. He was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK media in the Guardian Media One Hundred 2012, after representing the Telegraph Media Group at the Leveson Inquiry. In 2013 Gavin advised the Guardian on its Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of Edward Snowdens disclosures. He represented the Sun newspaper in the plebgate libel trial and the recent PJS celebrity injunction litigation. Gavin is recognised as a leading expert in election law, having appeared in many high profile cases in recent years. Gavins publications include Confidential Information in Coppels Information Rights (4th Edn 2014), Protecting Free Expression in J. Lewis and P. Crick eds, Media Law & Ethics in the 21st Century (IBA, 2014) and Media Law and Human Rights (OUP 2009). Dr Andrew Scott is a senior lecturer in law at the London School of Economics. He is also Assistant Director of the Executive LLM. Andrew's research interests focus on media law and regulation, constitutional law and competition law. Dr. Conor McCarthy is a practising barrister and member of Monckton Chambers, London. He has previously taught international law at the University of Cambridge and was formerly a visiting fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He has published widely on questions of international law, human rights law and issues of free expression. He is often instructed in cases raising questions of free expression or the protection of personal, confidential or privileged information.