Should the community infrastructure levy fund superfast broadband, ask Malcolm Dowden & Jen Hawkins
Mark Aizlewood & Joanne Staphnill fly through the risky terrain of social networking
Stephen Hockman QC returns to the controversy of privacy, parliament & the courts
Jennifer James grapples with a transatlantic tweeting sensation, Mr Monkey & the Fourth Estate
Tom Robinson & Conor Quigley QC provide a guide through the maze of competition & media plurality
It ain’t over till it’s over. James Wilson reflects on the trials of Naomi Campbell
The Indie had a go. Now it is the time of The Guardian. The temptation to knock The Times off its perch as the “must have” newspaper for any self-respecting lawyer is overwhelming.
Libel lawyers might well take a more nuanced view than some press commentators of the news that Mr Justice Eady is to be replaced as the judge responsible for the Queen’s Bench jury lists which hear the major defamation and privacy cases.
While defamation law could be simplified and made more accessible for both claimants and defendants, I am suspicious why, as an area of law that gave rise to only 219 cases in the High Court last year, it has been subjected to quite so many reviews and amendments over the last two years.
Paul Harris says it’s time to clamp down on internet defamation
Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team
Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees
Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes