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In media which receive regular public exposure, prejudice to character can only be banned (as a precautionary measure) if it is likely to bring about serious detriment, if no obvious justification exists for it and if the ban does not seem over-exagerated. In the present case, a violation of personal freedom during the explanation of a post office hold-up on an electronic publicly available medium is seen to be jusitified. The basic principle of "innocent until proved guilty" should be taken into consideration when relating on-going criminal proceedings in the electronic and printed media. Any...

In its advisory opinion of 16 June 1995, the EFTA Court has ruled that the «Television without Frontiers» directive (89/552/EEC of 3 October 1989) - which is integrated into the EEA Agreement - must be interpreted as precluding a general prohibition imposed on an advertiser, whereby he is prevented from showing an advertisement contained in a television programme of a broadcaster established in another EEA State. The prejudicial question to the EFTA Court arose as a result of a disagreement between the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman and the Norwegian subsidiary companies of Mattel and Lego. The toy-manufacturers...