{"title":"Defendant anonymity until charge, the presumption of innocence and the taxonomy of misuse of private information","authors":"R. Craig","doi":"10.1080/17577632.2022.2139570","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This note welcomes the judgment in ZXC and in particular the humane and nuanced recognition of reality. The general public do not draw the technical distinctions that professionals and carefully guided juries do on the presumption of innocence. The extension of anonymity until charge is a welcome outcome. The note also considers the taxonomy of the area, responding to the note by Tom Bennett in this volume. It suggests that the ‘hippogriffian’ aspects of the tort of MPI can be explained and justified with a little work.","PeriodicalId":37779,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Media Law","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2022.2139570","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This note welcomes the judgment in ZXC and in particular the humane and nuanced recognition of reality. The general public do not draw the technical distinctions that professionals and carefully guided juries do on the presumption of innocence. The extension of anonymity until charge is a welcome outcome. The note also considers the taxonomy of the area, responding to the note by Tom Bennett in this volume. It suggests that the ‘hippogriffian’ aspects of the tort of MPI can be explained and justified with a little work.
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The only platform for focused, rigorous analysis of global developments in media law, this peer-reviewed journal, launched in Summer 2009, is: essential for teaching and research, essential for practice, essential for policy-making. It turns the spotlight on all those aspects of law which impinge on and shape modern media practices - from regulation and ownership, to libel law and constitutional aspects of broadcasting such as free speech and privacy, obscenity laws, copyright, piracy, and other aspects of IT law. The result is the first journal to take a serious view of law through the lens. The first issues feature articles on a wide range of topics such as: Developments in Defamation · Balancing Freedom of Expression and Privacy in the European Court of Human Rights · The Future of Public Television · Cameras in the Courtroom - Media Access to Classified Documents · Advertising Revenue v Editorial Independence · Gordon Ramsay: Obscenity Regulation Pioneer?