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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012If you’re interested in new media (and old media) regulation, mark this down in your calendar. The Legal Research Foundation has organised a seminar to discuss the issues arising from the Law Commission’s The News Media meets ‘New Media’ issues paper (which I commented on here). It’s to be held on 1 May from 12:15 […]
Thanks all the same
Saturday, April 7th, 2012Apparently Paul Dacre, editor of the wildly popular but staggeringly awful British tabloid the Daily Mail, likes NZ. This from a very interesting New Yorker article on the paper: According to one editor, Dacre is enamored with New Zealand: “He thinks it’s like Britain from the nineteen-fifties.”
New media Downstage play
Monday, April 2nd, 2012This looks interesting. Downstage are putting on a play satirising the news and involving the live editing of footage and commentary supplied by the audience. Starts April 13.
Silliest statement by an Attorney-General ever?
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012On Sunday, former Police Minister Annette King told TVNZ’s Q and A that the Labour government ministers had merely been briefed on Operation 8, and at the last minute at that; that they were given assurances by Solicitor-General David Collins that the process was correct; and that they were dismayed by the way the police conducted […]
Cairns v Modi judgment
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Is here.
Well, you would be, wouldn’t you?
Monday, February 20th, 2012Lovely NZ Herald headline: Man critical after being set on fire
Online defamation: is it any different?
Monday, January 30th, 2012This is my column in NZ Lawyer magazine for 27 January 2012. Are the laws of defamation different online?I’m picking this question is going to garner increasing debate in the next few years. The answer, of course, is straightforward. Ask any blogger (they are seldom shy of venturing legal opinions) and they’ll tell you that […]
John Key backs MMP
Friday, November 25th, 2011I think you should vote to retain MMP on Saturday. But don’t listen to me. Listen to John Key. “Every vote counts,” he said this morning. He’s right, and it’s one of the best features of MMP. It’s not true (or not nearly as true) for any of the other voting systems. It’s not really true […]
No declaration after tea
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011Winkelmann J has declined to grant a declaration that the famous Epsom cuppa was not a private conversation. Does that mean it was a private conversation? No, it just means that she’s declined to rule on the issue right now. She gives several reasons. First, there are still facts in dispute, and she wan’t sure she […]
The worm returns
Monday, November 21st, 2011I see TV3 plan to use the worm again on tonight’s debate. Sigh. Here’s a column I wrote opposing the worm back in 2005. I think it still holds true.
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