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A sexual assault victim has successfully defended a libel claim brought by the perpetrator, relying both on the defence of truth and,...

The phrase “Wagatha Christie”, claimed to have been coined by Dan Atkinson in a viral tweet sent back in 2019, has been a buzzword in the...

The Regional Court of Hamburg addressed the question in August last year as to whether a fake interview with a German politician violates...

On 12 August 2022, the Meeting of Attorneys-General (MAG) released options for statutory reform of Australia’s defamation laws to deal...

In February 2022, the Supreme Court of New South Wales became the first Australian superior Court to consider the Australian ‘serious...

A recent decision of the District Court of New South Wales is one of the first cases where an Australian Court has considered the...

On 8 September 2021, Australia’s High Court dismissed an appeal by three Australian media organisations, finding that they were the...

On 1 July 2021, new defamation laws come into effect in New South Wales (NSW), Victoria, South Australia and Queensland (QLD). These are...

Bryony Hurst and Theo Rees-Bidder from our Dispute Resolution team look back at this summer’s judgment on the novel data protection...

Following the recent ruling in the first stage of Rebekah Vardy’s libel claim before the English High Court, a preliminary hearing on...

Maisie Briggs explores the second set of reports published by the European Commission, which set out the steps taken by online platforms...

Bird & Bird's media team in Australia report on new changes to defamation law, anticipated to make it easier for the media to report on...

Bird & Bird's media experts in Australia provide an essential guide to the huge amount of legal reform currently underway in the media...

Alex Grigg reports on a recent UK Supreme Court decision with important commentary on the public interest defence's applicability to...

The Czech Supreme Court recently issued an interesting ruling concerning defamation (Ref. 25 Cdo 3423/2018). In its decision from 29...

Jarrad Parker and Sophie Dawson explain four major areas of proposed reform across the Australian media law landscape, and look ahead to...