Lost voices in the process of courts digitisation

by Judith Townend | Jul 17, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a post by Judith Townend, Lecturer in Media and Information Law at the University of Sussex and a member of the Transparency Project. This piece was originally written for and published on Reform and we are grateful for the opportunity to repost it here....

Could Cairncross help public interest law reporting?

by Judith Townend | Feb 15, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a post by Dr Judith Townend, a lecturer in media and information law at the University of Sussex, with research interests in public interest reporting and freedom of expression....

New approach to media cases at the Royal Courts of Justice is a welcome development

by Judith Townend | Feb 27, 2018 | Comment, Consultations

This is an edited version of an article which first appeared in Communications Law journal, volume 23, issue 1 (Bloomsbury Professional) and PA Media Lawyer and is re-published here with permission and thanks. In 2012 Mr Justice Tugendhat, ahead of his retirement in...

Where did all the privacy injunctions go? A response to the Queen’s Bench ‘Media List’ consultation

by Judith Townend | May 27, 2017 | Comment, Consultations, Transparency News

According to the latest official statistics on privacy injunctions in January to December 2016 there were just three proceedings where the High Court considered an application for a new interim privacy injunction. Two were granted, one was refused. Two appeals were...

Online courts: What’s the ‘human’ impact?

by Judith Townend | Feb 20, 2017 | Comment, Consultations, Events

The testing of online courts should not simply be about whether the technology works, said Andrew Langdon QC, chairman of the Bar at an event on 16 February hosted by the UCL Judicial Institute, ‘The Case for Online Courts’. He sensibly pointed out the ‘human process’...