Judith Townend, who runs the indispensable Meeja Law blog, has launched a survey to find out how journalists and bloggers are affected libel and privacy law.

The decision of whether to name someone who has been arrested is one that editors have to grapple with most days. I get more legal queries about this than anything else. The problem is libel.

 

 

Web editors beware – the long-awaited crackdown on illegal cookies on websites has begun.

The Information Commission has written to more than 100 sites after receiving complaints from the public.

 

I saw an article about a dodgy curry house in south London on a news magazine’s website recently.

The restaurant was prosecuted after a rat appeared during an environmental health inspection.

Legal quiz: Can you spot all the reporting restrictions covering the story of Goldilocks and the three bears?

 

It was ironic that Lord Justice Leveson cleared off to Australia after publishing his report two weeks ago.

Hopefully, he will  look at Australian's press regulation while he’s there.

The PCC’s decision to reject a complaint after a local paper used someone’s photo and information from their Facebook page was a rare piece of good news for the media.

You may have thought drone journalism involved covering some boring official pontificating about a regional structure plan.

I suspect that we journalists are as cynical and uninspired about the forthcoming elections for Police Commissioners as everyone else. But we need to seize this rare opportunity to hold our police forces to account.