{"title":"Reporting police investigations, privacy rights and social stigma: Richard v BBC","authors":"J. Rowbottom","doi":"10.1080/17577632.2019.1582134","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Richard v BBC, a media report revealing that the police were investigating a person in relation to alleged historic sex offence was found to violate the claimant’s expectation of privacy. The ruling is important in drawing new boundaries on what can be reported in relation to criminal investigations. This article examines the decision and considers its relationship with other areas of law. In particular, the decision showed an overlap with defamation in so far as injury to reputation was central to the claim. More broadly, the law of privacy can now limit the publication of information about prior convictions, suggesting greater protection is now offered for personal information relating to the criminal justice system.","PeriodicalId":37779,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17577632.2019.1582134","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Media Law","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2019.1582134","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 In Richard v BBC, a media report revealing that the police were investigating a person in relation to alleged historic sex offence was found to violate the claimant’s expectation of privacy. The ruling is important in drawing new boundaries on what can be reported in relation to criminal investigations. This article examines the decision and considers its relationship with other areas of law. In particular, the decision showed an overlap with defamation in so far as injury to reputation was central to the claim. More broadly, the law of privacy can now limit the publication of information about prior convictions, suggesting greater protection is now offered for personal information relating to the criminal justice system.
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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?
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