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Leveson and Disproportionate Public Interest Reporting

Paul Wragg Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds and Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. This paper was presented at the ‘Media Law after Leveson’ Workshop, University of Oxford, 12 April 2013. I am grateful to Jacob Rowbottom and Alison Young, University of Oxford for the invitation to the workshop and to the participants at the conference for their constructive comments on the paper, and particularly Dr Emily Hudson, University of Oxford, for comments and suggestions on a previous draft. The usual disclaimer applies.
Pages 241-252 | Published online: 07 May 2015

  • Lord Justice Leveson, An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press: Report (HC 780, 2012) 66, [5.7].
  • Ibid, 78–79, [3.1].
  • Ibid, 1443, [3.32].
  • Ibid, 61–62.
  • See eg L Bollinger, Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open (Oxford University Press, 2010).
  • Palmanor Ltd v Cedron [1978] IRLR 303.
  • Daily Mail, 7 January 2008.
  • Leveson Report (n 1) 688, [9.56].
  • Ibid, 1129, [2.16].
  • Ibid, 79, [3.5].
  • Ibid, 22, [2.6].
  • Ibid, 688, [9.56].
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] UKHL 22.
  • See discussion in, eg, E Barendt, Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press, 2nd edn 2005); H Fenwick and G Phillipson, Media Freedom under the Human Rights Act (Oxford University Press, 2006); D Harris, M O'Boyle and C Warbrick, Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2nd edn 2009); M Janis, R Kay and A Bradley, European Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 3rd edn 2008).
  • See eg Sunday Times v UK (1979–80) 2 EHRR 245, [65]; Observer and Guardian v UK (1991) 14 EHRR 153; Jersild v Denmark (1995) 19 EHRR 1.
  • De Haes v Belgium (1997) 25 EHRR 1, [37].
  • See eg G Robertson and A Nicol, Media Law (Penguin, 5th edn 2008); G Millar, 'Whither the Spirit of Lingens?' (2009) 3 EHRLR 277.
  • (2009) 48 EHRR 8, [44].
  • Janowski v Poland (2000) 29 EHRR 705; Tammer v Estonia (2003) 37 EHRR 43. See discussion in J Sweeney, 'Margins of Appreciation: Cultural Relativity and the European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era' (2005) 54(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 459.
  • See eg Salov v Ukraine (2007) 45 EHRR 51, [104].
  • ETK v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 439, [23].
  • Re Guardian News and Media Ltd [2010] UKSC 1, [51].
  • De Haes v Belgium (n 16) [46]; Prager and Oberschlick v Austria (1995) 21 EHRR 1, [38].
  • Selisto v Finland (2005) EMLR 8; (2006) 42 EHRR 8, [63].
  • Salov v Ukraine (n 20) [113].
  • See eg Observer and Guardian v UK (n 15) [59].
  • Nilsen and Johnsen v Norway (2000) 30 EHRR 878, [43].
  • Campbell (n 13) [59] and [62].
  • Trimingham v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 1296 (QB).
  • P Wragg, ‘The Benefts of Privacy-Invading Expression’ (2013) 64(2) Northern Ireland Law Quarterly 187.
  • 'He's Not Only in the Wrong Body… He's in the Wrong Job' Daily Mail, 21 December 2012.
  • ‘It's a Fur Cop’ The Sun, 25 August 2010.
  • 'Is Mary Bale the Most Evil Woman in Britain?' The Independent, 29 August 2010.
  • ‘It's a Fur Cop’ (n 32).
  • Ibid.
  • ‘Cruel Cat Woman Named and Shamed’ The Sun, 24 August 2010.
  • 'Wheelie Bin Cat Dump Woman Mary Bale Fined £250' The Mirror, 20 October 2010.
  • ‘Cruel Cat Woman Named and Shamed’ (n 36).
  • ‘Purrminator's Apology after Death Threats’ The Sun, 26 August 2010.
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid.
  • ‘The Trial of Mary Bale’ FT Magazine, 25 March 2011.
  • Ibid.
  • Leveson Report (n 1) 1129, [2.16].
  • McKennitt v Ash [2006] EWCA Civ 1714.
  • 'Trans Teacher Believed to have Killed Herself “Had Told of Press Harassment”' The Guardian, 22 March 2013.
  • Leveson Report (n 1) 579, [7.12].

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