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Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Thursday, March 7, 2024

UK anti-SLAPP bill takes fire

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The United Kingdom has an anti-SLAPP bill on the table, and lawyer Gideon Benaim has cataloged objections. In broad strokes, the bill foll...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Observers comment on Assange extradition hearings

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My thanks to Assange Defense Boston for organizing the Massachusetts State House rally on February 20 (above). Assange Defense Boston poste...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Naming rape suspects may draw criminal charges for journalists under Northern Ireland privacy law

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Bernard Goldbach via Flickr CC BY 2.0 In Northern Ireland, it's a crime for a journalist to identify a rape suspect. The relevant provi...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Assange defense group plans Boston/online panel

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In connection with Student Press Freedom Day , featuring nationwide virtual events , Boston Area Assange Defense will host a live and strea...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

UK orders commission to study women's football; rising TV prices warn of commercial monopolization

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Karen Carney in 2019 (James Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The UK has announced "an in-depth review into the future of domest...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Code might inevitably regulate journalism in digital age

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The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is working on a "journalism code of practice" to legislate against defamation and ...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Posh Londoners poo poo peekaboo performance art

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"Rear Window" by Anthony O'Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0 Residents who live opposite the Tate Modern , an art museum in London on the s...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Covid-era eviction elicits ancient injunction plea

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Clameur de Haro was invoked to block the burial of William the Conqueror in 1087. Image from Amable Tastu, La Normandie Historique (1858). ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Big Oil deploys slick strategy to stay ahead of liability

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Image by Ucheke CC BY-SA 4.0 On February 12, the UK Supreme Court allowed a claim of environmental catastrophe by 40,000 to 50,000 Nigeria...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Netflix's 'Enola Holmes' tangles with family copyright

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Brown ( image by Gage Skidmore 2017 CC BY-SA 2.0 ) I quite enjoyed the film Enola Holmes , released on Netflix in 2020, a welcome respite...
Monday, February 8, 2021

UK court: Long arm of GDPR can't reach California*

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Image my composite of Atlantic Ocean by Tentotwo CC BY-SA 3.0 and "hand reach" from Pixabay by ArtsyBee , licensed *[UPDATE, ...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Depp defamation suits in US, UK see London setback

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Heard and Depp in 2015 ( GabboT CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Johnny Depp is fighting accusations of spousal abuse in defamation suits in England and t...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

US President haunts African 'ghost capital'

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Main traffic circle in Canchungo, Guinea-Bissau. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . Throughout Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa, ch...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Comparative law papers span globe, round out 2019

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Comparative Law is so rewarding to teach that I'm probably overcompensated to do it.*  The inherently diverse nature of the course cont...