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News Media and “New Media”– New Zealand Law Commission Consultation on...
The Law Commission of New Zealand is undertaking a review of the current regulatory regime for news media with respect to its adequacy in catering for new and emerging forms of news media – sometimes...
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A heroic – but slightly defective – plan to save the online world – Steven Price
There are times in the life of a mild-mannered reporter (and barrister and blogger) when he must shuck off his civilian garb, don his cape, and save the world. This is one of those times. There are...
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New Zealand Law Commission: Ministerial Briefing on Harmful Digital...
In May 2012, in response to rising concerns about the impact of cyber-bullying on young people, the responsible Minister asked the New Zealand Law Commission to fast-track the part of the project...
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Case Law, New Zealand, C v Holland, Court recognises “intrusion on seclusion”...
In the case of C v Holland ([2012] NZHC 2155), the New Zealand High Court has recognised, for the first time, the existence of a “privacy intrusion” tort – in a claim arising out the surreptitious...
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News: New Zealand Law Commission releases report “The News Media meets ‘New...
The New Zealand Law Commission has today released its report “ “The News Media Meets New Media: Rights, Responsibilities and Regulation in the Digital Age.” The report recommends the establishment of...
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New Zealand: Earthquake Commission v Unknown Defendants, Interim injunction...
I feel as if I write this same thing about once every year. Someone rushes to court to get an injunction preventing the release of information. It’s based on breach of confidence. Here it’s the...
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Defamation and Satire – Steven Price
Memo to anyone thinking of suing or threatening someone else for defamation after that person made fun of them. Don’t. It’s not that the law clearly protects humorous speech and satire. That question...
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New Zealand media regulation reforms – Steven Price
New Zealand has been looking at new proposals for media regulation which address the digital revolution … Unlike Australia and the UK, the NZ Law Commission’s media reform plans have met with minimal...
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New Zealand: Has the Harassment Act just swallowed the law of defamation? –...
A New Zealand lawyer has found a way of getting abusive and possibly defamatory material about her removed from the internet indefinitely … Wellington barrister Steven Price reflects on a radical...
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New Zealand Media Regulation: No one-stop media regulator – Steven Price
The good news, for the Law Commission: the government thinks the Commission’s report on media regulation – recommending the establishment of a one-stop media complaints body serving print, broadcast...
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Defamation, declaration and qualified privilege – Steven Price
Reading the New Zealand Court of Appeal’s decision in Smith v Dooley ([2013] NZCA 428) you get the feeling that the High Court blundered in all the ways it’s possible to blunder in a defamation case....
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News: Privacy Law Scholarship at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dr Nicole Moreham has asked us to draw the attention of our readers to a scholarship which is being offered by Victoria University of Wellington, in the Faculty of Law, for a student wishing to...
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Why New Zealand’s cyber-bullying bill is a good move – Steven Price
A bill before the New Zealand parliament would allow judges to issue online take-down orders against bloggers and the media. I’m for it. Let me tell you why. The Harmful Digital Communications Bill is...
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New Zealand: Opening the door to bloggers – Steven Price
New Zealand’s Press Council has grand plans to include bloggers in its membership, and regulatory orbit … But what are its chances of getting them to sign up? And will the same standards apply? Steven...
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New Zealand Law Commission: Review of Contempt of Court
The New Zealand Law Commission has published an issues paper Contempt in Modern New Zealand (IP 36, 2014). It is seeking feedback on a package of reforms which propose far-reaching changes to the law...
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Case Law, New Zealand: Murray v Wishart, Web hosts’ defamation liability...
In the significant New Zealand Court of Appeal decision in Murray v Wishart ([2014] NZCA 461) the judges unanimously ruled that a third party publisher (the owner of a Facebook page that contained...
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New Zealand: The Blogger and the Journalist, “Whale Oil” in the Courts –...
The Whale certainly created a splash in the last New Zealand election. More accurately, it was investigative journalist Nicky Hager and his book Dirty Politics that created the splash. The Whale –...
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Privacy Issues in New Zealand: Sex with the Office Lights on – Nicole Moreham
Everyone in New Zealand was talking about the law of privacy last week. This was not because of an important new Supreme Court decision or an interesting legislative proposal. It was because the...
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New Zealand Passes Harmful Digital Communications Act – Tim Sissons
The New Zealand Harmful Digital Communications Act received Royal Assent on 2 July 2015. The offence of causing harm by posting digital communication, the safe harbour provisions, and the amendments to...
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Is New Zealand the Libel World’s most plaintiff friendly jurisdiction? – Ali...
New Zealand defamation law strikingly favours plaintiffs. Sure, the Thai monarchy could be said to enjoy a certain degree of power, in view of the 25-year prison sentence imposed earlier this year on...
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