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NZLS media law seminar
By Steven | February 14, 2008
TVNZ lawyer Willy Akel, Fairfax lawyer Robert Stewart and I are presenting a law society seminar on media law in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in April. Sign up now!
Watch Willy and I slug it out over the laws of privacy and qualified privilege! He’s bigger than I am, but I’m nippy.
Actually, it will mostly be more sedate than that. Robert will be talking about open justice and suppression issues; Willy will cover privacy; and I’ll be looking at press and broadcasting standards. Then we’ll team up to go over recent developments in qualified privilege.
I will do my best to inject a note of rationality to temper Willy’s wild rants about the need for untrammeled freedom of speech for the media. (Alternative spin: Willy will try to pull my head of the the clouds and force me to grapple with the chilling consequences media restrictions). Robert, who’s so fair and balanced you could put a camera on him and call him a TV channel, will no doubt be umpire and peace-keeper.
You might also be interested in the LexisNexis conference on media law in Auckland in March. There will be presentations on contempt, copyright, media law generally, censorship, the effects of media law on journalists, and the future of media regulation in NZ.
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