Authors: Tom Welsh, David Banks, Walter Greenwood
ISBN-13: 9780199211548, ISBN-10: 019921154X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 2007
Edition: REV
Tom Welsh, Editor of the MEDIA LAWYER newsletter. Walter Greenwood, Law Consultant, Trinity Mirror Training, Newcastle upon Tyne, formerly editor (training), Thomson Regional Newspapers and Chair, Law Examinations Board, NCTJ.
There is perhaps no professionoutside the legal profession itselfthat is more greatly affected by the recent onslaught of changes in the law in areas as diverse as human rights and data protection, than the journalistic profession. McNae's Essential Law for Journalists , now in its 17th edition, is the definitive guide to developments in the law as they affect journalists.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Starting proceedings : reporting the courts | 12 |
3 | Crimes | 22 |
4 | Magistrates courts : summary proceedings | 26 |
5 | Magistrates courts : preliminary hearings | 33 |
6 | Juveniles in the news | 42 |
7 | The crown court and the appeal courts | 61 |
8 | Sexual offences and other statutory restrictions | 73 |
9 | Magistrates courts : civil functions | 83 |
10 | The civil courts | 86 |
11 | Admission to the courts and access to court information | 95 |
12 | Challenging the courts | 116 |
13 | Divorce | 144 |
14 | Bankruptcy and company liquidation | 147 |
15 | Inquests | 152 |
16 | Tribunals and inquiries | 158 |
17 | Contempt of court | 169 |
18 | Defamation | 196 |
19 | What the claimant must prove | 213 |
20 | How much protection? | 224 |
21 | Criminal libel, slander, and malicious falsehoods | 262 |
22 | Rehabilitation of Offenders Act | 271 |
23 | Breach of confidence | 275 |
24 | The journalist's sources | 295 |
25 | Race relations | 318 |
26 | Election law | 321 |
27 | Freedom of information | 324 |
28 | Copyright | 354 |
29 | Official secrets | 366 |
30 | Human Rights Act 1998 | 370 |
31 | The codes | 381 |
32 | Privacy | 389 |
33 | Data Protection Act 1998 | 414 |
34 | The broadcast journalist | 432 |
35 | The photographer and the law | 441 |
36 | Northern Ireland | 450 |