- Author(s): Robin Callender Smith
- Publisher: Thomson Sweet & Maxwell
- Edition: 1 Ed South Asian Ed 2019
- ISBN 13 9789389407082
- Approx. Pages 564 + Contents
- Format Hardbound
- Approx. Product Size 24 x 16 cms
- Delivery Time Normally 7-9 working days
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Description
I have had the great fortune for nearly 40 years of working closely with the editors and news desks of a number of different daily and Sunday national newspapers. My work on Sunday newspapers began in the days of the late Sir John Junor (JJ) in 1981 on the Sunday Express. JJ had written a trenchant comment about consultant paediatrician Dr Leonard Arthur during his trial at Leicester Crown Court for the murder of a three-year-old boy suffering from Down's Syndrome. His comment was along the lines of "....members of the jury, you should have no difficulty in convicting 'Doctor Death'. ...". He and Express Newspapers both pleaded guilty to the contempt charges brought against them by the Attorney General, Sir Michael Havers. He was personally fined £1,000 and Express Newspapers was fined £10,000. It was made clear to the editor that any further contempt proceedings during his editorship would result in immediate imprisonment. The duty lawyer that weekend vanished from the rota of barristers working as "night lawyers", the external lawyers who check all the pre-publication copy for libel, contempt, copyright, libel and privacy problems. I was given the chance to fill the gap because I was already working on the Daily Express legal rota and was a Glaswegian Scot by birth, if not by accent. The theory was that JJ might take more notice of me if he strayed too close to the line in the future. His experience of the contempt proceedings in the High Court remained with him so vividly that he needed little help from me to stay out of prison. His misfortune, however, started me in a weekend occupation that I love and which has continued ever since. Traditionally it has been part of the Sunday newspapers' raison d'être to break the interesting, investigative or scandalous stories. For that reason their duty, pre-publication lawyers' work on a Saturday, has always been perhaps more interesting than the normal work during the evenings of the production of daily papers.
I have had the great fortune for nearly 40 years of working closely with the editors and news desks of a number of different daily and Sunday national newspapers. My work on Sunday newspapers began in the days of the late Sir John Junor (JJ) in 1981 on the Sunday Express. JJ had written a trenchant comment about consultant paediatrician Dr Leonard Arthur during his trial at Leicester Crown Court for the murder of a three-year-old boy suffering from Down's Syndrome. His comment was along the lines of "....members of the jury, you should have no difficulty in convicting 'Doctor Death'. ...". He and Express Newspapers both pleaded guilty to the contempt charges brought against them by the Attorney General, Sir Michael Havers. He was personally fined £1,000 and Express Newspapers was fined £10,000. It was made clear to the editor that any further contempt proceedings during his editorship would result in immediate imprisonment. The duty lawyer that weekend vanished from the rota of barristers working as "night lawyers", the external lawyers who check all the pre-publication copy for libel, contempt, copyright, libel and privacy problems. I was given the chance to fill the gap because I was already working on the Daily Express legal rota and was a Glaswegian Scot by birth, if not by accent. The theory was that JJ might take more notice of me if he strayed too close to the line in the future. His experience of the contempt proceedings in the High Court remained with him so vividly that he needed little help from me to stay out of prison. His misfortune, however, started me in a weekend occupation that I love and which has continued ever since. Traditionally it has been part of the Sunday newspapers' raison d'être to break the interesting, investigative or scandalous stories. For that reason their duty, pre-publication lawyers' work on a Saturday, has always been perhaps more interesting than the normal work during the evenings of the production of daily papers.
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Contents
Part One
Chapter 1 : Key Concepts of Celebrity, Privacy and Proportionality
Part One
Chapter 1 : Key Concepts of Celebrity, Privacy and Proportionality
Part Two
Chapter 2 : Breach of Confidence as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 3 Misuse of Private Information as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 4 Copyright and Image Rights as Privacy Remedies
Chapter 5 Protection from Harassment Act 1997 as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 6 Data Protection Act 1998 as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 7 Defamation Act 2013 as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 8 Conclusions
Part Three
Chapter 9 The monarch and members of the royal family
Chapter 10 Freedom of Information Act 2000: post-enactment changes
made in 2010 in respect of the monarch and the royal family
Chapter 11 The Sovereign Grant Act 2011
Chapter 12 The Convention of sealing the royal wills
Chapter 2 : Breach of Confidence as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 3 Misuse of Private Information as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 4 Copyright and Image Rights as Privacy Remedies
Chapter 5 Protection from Harassment Act 1997 as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 6 Data Protection Act 1998 as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 7 Defamation Act 2013 as a Privacy Remedy
Chapter 8 Conclusions
Part Three
Chapter 9 The monarch and members of the royal family
Chapter 10 Freedom of Information Act 2000: post-enactment changes
made in 2010 in respect of the monarch and the royal family
Chapter 11 The Sovereign Grant Act 2011
Chapter 12 The Convention of sealing the royal wills
Appendices
Bribery Act 2010
Data Protection Act 1998
Defamation Act 2013
Independent Press Standards Organisation Code
Electronic Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC
Index
Bribery Act 2010
Data Protection Act 1998
Defamation Act 2013
Independent Press Standards Organisation Code
Electronic Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC
Index
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