September 17th, 2012
What should the Inquiry do? As little as possible, suggests Trevor Kavanagh. The press does not need licences like dogs and gun owners
Tags: Tags: free speech, Leveson Inquiry, press freedom, The Sun, Trevor Kavanagh,
March 2nd, 2012
A damages claim by Manchester United and Wales footballer Ryan Giggs against the Sun newspaper was thrown out by the High Court today. Giggs claimed that the tabloid had “misused” private information, and said he was entitled to claim damages for distress and breach of a right to privacy. Giggs was granted an injunction in April 2011 after an article was published in the tabloid about an unnamed player’s alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas. The anonymity part of the injunction was lifted last month, despite the footballer already having been widely identified on Twitter and named in the Commons by Lib Dem MP John Hemming in May 2011. News Group Newspapers, publisher of the Sun, argued at a hearing last month that Giggs’ damages claim was “dead in the water” and should be thrown out.Tags: Tags: Media, press freedom, privacy, ryan giggs, The Sun, UK,
February 21st, 2012
Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs has been named in court for the first time as the Premier League footballer with a high-profile privacy injunction against the Sun. At a hearing at the high court today, Giggs agreed to lift the anonymity part of the injunction that he brought in April 2011 to prevent the tabloid from publishing claims he had an extra-marital affair with model Imogen Thomas. Yet the footballer was widely identified on Twitter and was named in the Commons by Lib Dem MP John Hemming last May. The footballer is trying to claim damages for distress from the Sun — alleging the paper breached his right to privacy — as well as for subsequent re-publication of information in other newspapers and online.Tags: Tags: Imogen Thomas, injunction, Media, press freedom, privacy, ryan giggs, The Sun, UK,
May 13th, 2009
The Ministry of Defence has banned UK troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from looking at The Sun’s page3.com website deeming it inappropriate for soldiers. Read more hereTags: Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Ministry of Defence, Page 3, soldiers, The Sun,
