Subjects:

Media and Entertainment Law

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Starting proceedings: reporting the courts

3. Crimes

4. Magistrates courts: summary proceedings

5. Magistrates courts: preliminary hearings

6. Juveniles in the news

7. The crown court and the appeal courts

8. Sexual offences and other statutory restrictions

9. Magistrates courts: civil functions

10. The civil courts

11. Admission to the courts and access to court information

12. Challenging the courts

13. Divorce

14. Bankruptcy and company liquidation

15. Inquests

16. Tribunals and inquiries

17. Contempt of court

18. Defamation

19. What the claimant must prove

20. How much protection?

21. Criminal libel, slander, and malicious falsehoods

22. Rehabilitation of Offenders Act

23. Breach of confidence

24. The journalist's sources

25. Race relations

26. Election law

27. Freedom of information

28. Copyright

29. Official secrets

30. Human Rights Act 1998

31. The Codes

32. Privacy

33. Data Protection Act 1998

34. The broadcast journalist

35. Photographers

36. Northern Ireland

Glossary

Book list

Index

An up-to-date text on media law for both practising journalists and students, McNae 's explains in a clear, engaging style the effects of the law and the Press Complaints Commission Code of Conduct on newsgathering and publication.

Updated to include the effects of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Courts Act 2003, and a brand new chapter on law for photographers, the 18th edition of McNae's is the definitive guide to developments in the law as they affect journalists.

New to this edition:-

• Larger format, new page design and now containing tables of cases, statutes, relevant civil procedure rules and European Convention articles
• Brand new chapter on law for photographers
• The chapter formely known as Information from Government has now been re-titled Freedom of Information indicating the wider sweep of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
• Including the latest developments in case law, in particular the rapidly developing areas of privacy and confidentiality and in the interpretations being placed by the courts upon the Reynolds defence in defamation

  Online Resource Centre

  • Providing a test bank of questions, updates, web links, key cases, latest news, and the "Does Your Story Contravene the Official Secrets Act?" table, along with a detailed explanation of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 and 1989.