Libel, Slander & Privacy

The Author of a Blog v Times Newspapers Limited

"Thousands of regular bloggers who communicate nowadays via the Internet, under a cloak of anonymity, would be horrified to think that the law would do nothing to protect their anonymity."

Bond v BBC

(11 March 2009): "After all, if "he was not interested in receiving bungs", and "no one he has ever worked with has taken a bung", there would be no story worthy of an exposè on prime time television."

Carrie v Tolkien

(15 January 2009 — defamation on the internet)

Mosley v News Group Newspapers Limited

"It would hardly be appropriate to clutter up the courts with cases of spanking between consenting adults taking place in private property and without disturbing the neighbours."
Eady J injected "proportionality" in a judgment which could have a profound effect on the "tabloid and celebrity culture to which we have become accustomed in recent years".

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