Inforrm – Easter Break until 8 April 2013

The Inforrm blog is taking a break from regular posting over Easter.  The English law courts are closed until 9 April 2013, the House of Commons is not sitting again until 15 April 2013, and the House of Lords until 22 April 2013.  Inforrm will have a more modest break – until 8 April 2013.

Inforrm Media Law Quiz of the Year, 2012 – The Answers and the Result

On 1 January 2013, we published the third “Inforrm” Media Law Quiz – set by the winner of the 2010 and 2011 quizes, Benjamin Pell. There were 45 tough questions arising out of the Media Law Cases of the past 12 months. It may be that Mr Pell’s reputation for encyclopedic knowledge put off some potential contestants. Not many of our readers and contributors had the courage to submit entries. Thank you to those who did.

Inforrm Blog – Happy Third Birthday

Today is the third birthday of the Inforrm blog – which began operation on 22 January 2010.   Our first post – “Welcome to Inforrm” – attracted 2 visitors in January 2010 and the site had a total of 7 page views that month. That was the only post in January. The posting rate and visitor numbers have increased dramatically since then. In our first three years we have had a total of 1,584 posts and nearly 1.4 million page views. We have an established readership all round the world.

Inforrm 2012 Media Law Quiz of the Year – Extension of Time

In response to a number of requests from perplexed readers, we are granting an extension of time for submissions of answers to the Inforrm media law quiz of the year. A number of distinguished media lawyers have told us that they are unable to answer a single question.  If true, this demonstrates a lamentable failure to read Inforrm over the past year.  The blog contains straightforwards answers to a number of the questions.  

Inforrm: End of Winter Break and Looking Forward to 2013

The Inforrm Blog today returns to regular publication after our winter break.  Although the legal vacation continues until Friday 11 January 2013, there is no shortage of media and legal news.  We have already had a weekly round up earlier this week and a number of “winter break posts” – in particular we had Judith Townend’s review of Media and Law in 2012 (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3).  

Inforrm 2012 Media Law Quiz of the Year

Following the runaway success of our Media Law quizzes for 2010 and 2011 we are repeating the exercise for 2012 – with one important change.  The runaway winner in 2010 and 2011, Benjamin Pell, has graciously agreed to forego the chance of an hat trick and has, instead, agreed to take on the role of quiz master.  This should encourage all our readers to take part. Many of the answers can be found in Inforrm’s comprehensive 2012 media and law coverage.

Inforrm is taking a Winter Break

The Inforrm blog will be taking a short winter break again this year to allow our editorial team to relax.  We will have a few “seasonal” posts over the next fortnight – in particular Jude Townend’s “Media Law Review of the Year” and the eagerly awaited and hotly contested “Inforrm 2012 Quiz” – but normal service will not be resumed until the second week in January 2013.

Inforrm reaches 1,500 posts – the popular and the less visible

The Inforrm Blog has now been going for nearly 3 years. Yesterday we reached another milestone – 1,500 posts. We have published more that 500 new posts in 2012. And contrary to which might have been the recent impression, not all of them have been about the Leveson Inquiry.

Inforrm Blog Resources: new and improved Tables of Cases

The Tables of Cases across the top of Inforrm blog have been supplemented and updated.  We now have four different tables, containing references to media law cases decided over the past three years.  The table of Privacy cases has now been brought up to date.  In summary the four tables cover the following material.

Inforrm: End of the Summer Break

Today marks the official end of the Inforrm summer break.  Although the legal vacation continues until 1 October, there is no shortage of media and legal news.  We had a “Mid-Summer Round Up” a couple of weeks ago and we will resume our regular weekly round up tomorrow. Regular readers will have noticed that we have not, in fact, had much of a break this year.  This has been, in large part, due to the two main “media legal” stories of the summer: Royal Privacy and the preparations for the publication of the Leveson report this Autumn.