Often the rights of the individual are in direct opposition to the rights of the public. This issue was recently explored in the blog about Australian Prison surveillance. The further we delve into the question of what’s right, the more confusing this becomes, as what might be right legally may not be right from a freedom of speech perspective.

When neo Nazis fill our web pages with racist and often completely fabricated rhetoric, the majority of people protest and rightly so, demanding that the spread of hate be removed. Some proponents of free speech might argue that this type of

CALL FOR PAPERS

ILPC Annual Conference 2022 – Online Safety in a Connected World

We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 7th Annual Conference on 17-18 November 2022 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and supported by the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) and Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journaling. You can read about our previous annual events here.

We are looking for high quality contributions that explore the impact of policymaking focused on ensuring ‘online safety’ and the increased use of data-driven systems that are increasingly connecting all aspects

The ILPC Book Launch Event – Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism (Elgar Law 2021) took place on 11th May. The ILPC was delighted to host this online event and congratulates former ILPC Research Associate Dr Peter Coe (University of Reading) on ​​its publications.

This timely and highly topical event was organized as a panel discussion with an impressive and international panel of speakers from academia, regulation, and legal practice – Professor David Rolph (University of Sydney), Professor Paul Wragg (University of Leeds), Rebecca Moosavian ( University of Leeds), Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana (Head of Regulation at IMPRESS), and

Some of the largest false advertising jury verdicts were recorded in 2022. This, coupled with increased inflationary pressures will likely lead to an uptick in false advertising suits given that such pressures will impact consumer spending habits, leading to increased scrutiny of competitor advertising practices—particularly in the social media space.

This post is one in a series of posts seeking to provide a snapshot of the latest Monster Energy, CareDx and AT&T cases, respectively. The second post will detail the differences between literal and non-literal falsehoods, comparative advertising—and how presumptions can favor plaintiffs when literal falsehoods are proven. It

UPDATES: The Rochester City School District is closed today, as are several districts south of Monroe County.

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School officials will be monitoring the weather closely as a mass of bitter cold air slides into the Rochester area this week.

Wind chill values ​​on Friday are forecast to be in the negative teens, not far from the point where cancellations are recommended.

Each school district in the area determines whether schools should close for the day, but Monroe County’s Department of Public Health offers a guideline to help educators determine how cold is too cold to have school.

Both the

RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. RightsCon offers a platform for thousands of participants around the world to converge, connect, and contribute to a shared agenda for the future. It enables business leaders, activists, technologists, policymakers, journalists, philanthropists, researchers, and artists from around the world to interact and explore opportunities to advance human rights in the digital age. The 11th RightsCon Summit in 2022 took place from 6-10 June.

Jeni Tennison attended the summit and has provided some reflections from the following sessions.

a) Decolonizing co-design: Global South perspectives

This session looked at

In this post, Erin Crawley, a trainee solicitor in the Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Disputes team at CMS, comments on the case of McCue (as guardian for Andrew McCue) v Glasgow City Council [2023] UKSC 1.

On 11 January 2023, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal in McCue (as guardian for Andrew McCue) v Glasgow City Council [2023] UKSC 1, finding that Glasgow City Council’s (“the Council”) charging policy for community care services was not discriminatory. The decision, in favor of the Council, was handed down approximately two months after the case was heard by the Supreme Court.

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Author: Dr. Rys Farthing

Seven years ago, Australia passed its first online safety bill, the Enhancing Online Safety Actupdating and expanding it in 2021 with the Online Safety Act. While both Acts had problems and pitfalls, these were ‘global firsts’ at attempts to legislate to address the problem. As the UK’s Online Safety Bills slowly passes its way, under a now caretaker government, through its Third reading and into the House of Lords, it is timely to reflect on some of the lessons from the Australian experience over the past seven years. Below are four reflections on how the