An answer to a parliamentary question by Paul Farrelly MP has revealed that the high court does not keep a record of the number of injunctions granted against the press. In the current edition of The Economist, media lawyer Mark Stephens says he...
The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, yesterday signed a law that will allow the state's courts to refuse to enforce British libel judgments. The new law effectively negates the practice of libel tourism. The California legislation now...
Simon Singh, the science writer who yesterday (Oct 14) won the right to appeal a preliminary judgment in a case brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, has been accused of "maliciously" attacking the organisation. In a...
The European Union on 14 October called on Turkey to shield Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk from court cases undermining freedom of expression. A week before the European Commission released its annual progress report on Turkey, a Turkish...
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has lost a libel case against newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Dzhugashvili alleged that an article describing his late grandfather as a "bloodthirsty cannibal" defamed Stalin's "honour...
The UK's Asylum and Immigration Tribunal has ruled that then-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was wrong to ban controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders entry to the United Kingdom. Read more here
Bloomberg news is reporting that US President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Read here
Plans to make a movie about the romance between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten may be halted by the Indian government. It has refused to allow filming in the country if there are any scenes that show India’s first prime minister and the...
Three lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual sites have been blocked by the Turkish telecommunications authority. The sites were deemed to incite or encourage suicide, child abuse, drug-use and obscenity. Galibe.com, haydigayri.com and...
An Italian court has overturned a law granting immunity from prosecution to prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. Read more here Read Index on Censorship's report on political interference in Italian media here