Newsgathering: Law, Regulation, and the Public Interest

Andrew Scott author Gavin Millar QC author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:2nd Jun '16

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Newsgathering: Law, Regulation, and the Public Interest cover

This pioneering work draws together the law and other regulatory rules that relate to newsgathering. Written in the post-Leveson environment, each chapter considers a specific newsgathering practice, and covers ethics, (self-) regulatory rules, common law and statutory oversight. In addition to covering the law of England and Wales, the work draws on the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and applicable EU law. Written by highly-regarded authors Gavin Millar QC and Dr Andrew Scott, this is the first text to cover the full range of newsgathering issues from a legal perspective.

Newsgathering represents an important contribution to the literature on media law. It is a useful resource which serves to illustrate, as the authors show, the myriad ways in which the state can (and does) exercise coercion over the press. * Paul Wragg, Communications Law *
Here is a book that by turns, will fascinate, inform, caution and probably worry a great many editors, journalists and their legal advisers. As a first edition, it will almost undoubtedly emerge as the definitive work of reference on the legal complexities governing the newsgathering process -- including the protections as well as the pitfalls ... Practitioners, especially media lawyers, not to mention editors and journalists should all have a copy. * Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers *

ISBN: 9780199685806

Dimensions: 252mm x 175mm x 30mm

Weight: 958g

466 pages