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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