There are a lot of mixed messages in our society (for example, those surrounding young girls growing up these days). Something that has struck me forcefully in recent days, however, is that the press have been sending out very mixed messages about gay and lesbian people in our society. The first story to break was [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Media, Politics, Society
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Tagged Adam Walter, AFL, Australian Rules Football, channel 7, Daniel Kowalski, David Campbell, Elena Kagan, gay and lesbian, homosexuality, invasion of privacy, Jason Akermanis, NSW Labor Party, Privacy, sexuality
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” (Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer of Voltaire) Disapproving of what someone says but defending their right to say it is sometimes very hard. It sounds fine in principle…until you see something that is really challenging to your ideas [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australian internet filter, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Media, Society
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Tagged aborigines, Australian Human Rights Commission, censorship, electronic frontiers australia, Encyclopaedia Dramatica, Free Speech, indigenous issues, ISP filtering, Joseph Evers, Racism, steve hodder-watt, streisand effect
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I have to say that I never really understood where the acronym WAG came from – I had to look it up on Wikipedia, and I found that it originated as a descriptor of the Wives And Girlfriends of the 2006 English World Cup soccer club. Anyway, I’ve noted that our press has started referring [...]
February 19, 2010 – 2:16 pm
[Warning, if you are eating, do not continue reading this post.] I just had occasion to shiver all over with horror. You know, when something is so awful that you feel like your skin is crawling off your back? What could be so awful…? The cause of my horror was the article where Tony Abbott [...]
December 7, 2009 – 9:46 am
I went to an interesting seminar the other day on breach of confidence law. The seminar included a number of speakers and spanned Australian, UK and US law on the subject, as well as a historical consideration of the piecemeal manner in which breach of confidence law developed. Apparently breach of confidence was a relative [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Equity, Free Speech, Intellectual property, Law, Media, Public Policy
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Tagged breach of confidence, breach of privacy, European Convention on Human Rights, giller v procopets, max mosely
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Finally, I’ve found a piece that pins the tail on the one donkey that hasn’t been properly skewered in the whole Vile and Tacky episode that Legal Eagle’s already covered. Over at The Punch (a blog I haven’t encountered before), a young chap (judging by his picture) called Chris Deal makes this point: But there’s [...]
I can’t believe there is a case called The Author of A Blog v Times Newspapers Limited [2009] EWHC 1358 (QB). But there is. “The Author of A Blog” cited as the claimant was the pseudonymous author of a blog known as “Night Jack”. He was a police officer whose blog provided an inside view [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Blogging, England, Internet, Law, Media, Society, Technology
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Tagged anonymous blogging, invasion of privacy, NightJack, Privacy, Richard Horton
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More than one commentator over many years has made the point that the liberal choice architecture of capitalist societies is actually incompatible with capitalism itself: getting up on Monday morning to do one’s work for The Man involves not getting so wasted on the weekend that capitalist acts between consenting adults become impossible once the [...]
Councils in England and Wales have used controversial spying laws 10,000 times in the past five years, figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) was designed to fight serious crime. But officials have been using it to spy on suspected dog fouling, littering and other minor offences. The [...]
December 12, 2008 – 8:03 am
Love rats, beware. If you decide to humiliate your ex by showing videos or photos of your ex in a compromising position, you may be liable for damages for breach of confidence. This is a result of the Victorian Court of Appeal’s decision in Giller v Procopets [2008] VSCA 236, in which it was decided [...]
