Press Gazette: European court rejects time limit for online libel claim
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 16:55
Bad news for newspaper web archives: "The Times has failed in its bid to challenge an obscure 160-year-old legal precedent that allows people to sue newspapers for online libel without any time limit. … The court said it had ruled on the facts of this case alone and would not 'consider in detail the broader chilling effect allegedly created by the application of the internet publication rule'."
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 10:51
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"In a ruling welcomed as a victory for freedom of the press, [the ECHR] has awarded damages to an investigative journalist whose home was raided and computers confiscated after he published reports alleging fraud within the European Union."
Friday, 23 November 2007, 16:14
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"Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin says he wants to formalise the right of journalists to refuse to reveal their sources by incorporating it in legislation."
