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Open justice and closed tribunals: refugee hearings and the Rule of Law

Open justice and closed tribunals: refugee hearings and the Rule of Law

In a previous post, I considered the common law and constitutional aspects of the principle of open justice. In Wednesday's Irish Times, Carol Coulter reported on a case in which a child asylum Continue Reading

The role of new media in humanities scholarship

One of my favourite reads online is the journal First Monday, one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. The name of the journal was Continue Reading

Mechancial turks, safe harbours, and immunities – liability for defamatory comments on websites

Eric Goldman has recently blogged about a US case in which a local tv broadcaster was not held liable in defamation for a comment posted on its website by a viewer. More recently, Rebecca Tushnet Continue Reading

Conference: Recent developments in Irish Defamation Law

Next week, the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, will host a conference on Recent Developments in Irish Defamation Law - Including the Defamation Act, 2009 It will be on from 9:30am to Continue Reading

Updates: Joyce, hecklers and broadcasting

I suppose if I spent ages thinking about it, I could find a spurious thread linking three stories that caught my eye over the last few days, but in truth there is none, except that they update Continue Reading

Broadcasting Authority imminent

The Broadcasting Act, 2009 (pdf) sets the regulatory framework for broadcasting services in Ireland. It consolidates all Irish broadcasting legislation into a single Act, and establishes a new Continue Reading

Journalism and Blogging in the New York Review of Books

There is a wonderful essay by Michael Massing in the current edition of the New York Review of Books about the deepening relationship between print and online journalism. In form, it's a review of Continue Reading

Copperfastening the right of journalists to protect sources?

Marie McGonagle, NUI Galway, writes in today's Irish Times that the judgment in Mahon Tribunal v Keena IESC 64 (31 July 2009) (also here (pdf)) copperfastens the right of journalists to protect Continue Reading

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Yours trulyHi there! Thanks for dropping by. I'm Eoin O'Dell, and this is my blog: Cearta.ie - the Irish for rights.

"Cearta" really is the Irish word for rights, so the title provides some sense of the scope of this blog. In general, I write about private law, free speech, and cyber law; and, in particular, I write about Irish law and education policy.

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