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Dealing With Speech Harms – A Commentary on Steven Price’s Answer to the Law...

Late last year the Law Commission released its “News Media meets New Media”  issues paper. The paper addressed two major issues – first, the state of media regulation in an environment of media...

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Why Do Jurors Go On-line?

The discussion that follows is part of a wider investigation that I have undertaken in preparing for a paper to be presented at the International Criminal Law Congress to be held in September 2012. The...

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The Medium is the Message: Twitter and YouTube Prosecutions

The Medium is the Message:[1] When are Digital Communications Harmful? Introduction The case of Paul Chambers v DPP has excited interest in the Internet community. It has become a flag bearer case for...

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Social Media and the Judiciary

Introduction Twitter JusticeFrom http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/business-in-london/law/londons-20-most-influential-tweeters-law/1118.article Should Judges involve themselves with social media,...

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The Googling Juror: The Fate of the Jury Trial in the Digital Paradigm

This paper considers the challenges posed by the information communication technologies of the Digital Paradigm to existing concepts of the fair trial by an impartial jury. It will argue that it is...

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Lawyers, Judges and the “New” Media

Lawyers, Judges and the “New” Media Introduction It occurred to me as I was writing the post about Judges and the Social Media that we have actually been down this track before – where lawyers and...

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The Googling Juror – Update

It was as clear as crystal that my discussion of the Googling Juror and the reasons why jurors go on-line was not going to be the last word on the subject and indeed discussion and debate can only...

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The News Media meets New Media – a midpoint in technology driven rule making

The Law Commission Report In March the Law Commission released its long awaited report “News Media Meets ‘New Media’: Rights, Responsibilities and Regulation in the Digital Age.” The Reports addresses...

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On-Line Speech Harms

A Sketch of Issues to be Considered in Legislating for the Digital Paradigm This is a paper that was presented to the Bullying, Young People and the Law Symposium held under the auspices of the Allanah...

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Authoritative Digitised Legislation

Introduction The use of legislative material and, more importantly whether a court will accept it without question, is governed by statute. In certain circumstances a copy of legislation will be...

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New News Opportunities

In the newspaper this morning there were a couple of articles that caused me to reflect on the level of understanding of the Digital Paradigm. The first by respected business journalist Fran O’Sullivan...

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Extreme Hardship and Social Media

“It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.”[1] Introduction This article considers the Court of Appeal decision in...

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The Content Regulatory System Review – An Overview

Lockdown has its benefits. For some time I have been asked whether or not I would contemplate a 5th edition of “internet.law.nz – selected issues.” After 4 editions including a revised 4th edition my...

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Media Safety? Responding to Tohatoha

On 25 July a new online safety code came into effect. It was drawn up and agreed between a number of online players such as Netsafe, NZTech, Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), Google...

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