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On 19 December 2017, the public broadcaster RTÉ settled the ongoing legal proceedings that had been initiated by a former presidential candidate against RTÉ over a 2011 televised election debate. The claim centred on RTÉ’s 2011 election debate, when the presenter questioned the candidate about a statement concerning him that had just been made on the supposed official Twitter account of another candidate. It later turned out that the tweet had been attributed, in error, to the official Twitter account of the other candidate. In March 2012, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) held that the...

On 18 December 2017, Ofcom issued its notable decision concerning privacy and the identification of individuals mentioned in criminal investigations. On 20 April, 2017, theindependent commercial television channel, ITV, broadcast an episode of Detectives, which is a factual programme that follows police detectives as they investigate crimes. In this episode, they show extracts of a police interview with Mr Lazenby, who is suspected of committing rape. During the police interview, the detectives ask Mr Lazenby whether he is in any relationships and whether they involve sexual intimacy. Mr Lazenby...

On 19 October 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in the case of Fuchsmann v. Germany, which concerned the online version of a New York Times article accessible in Germany. The applicant in the case is an internationally active entrepreneur in the media sector, and holds the position of Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress. In June 2001, the New York Times published an article about an investigation into corruption against R.L. The article was entitled “[L] Media Company Faces a Federal Inquiry”, and included the statements that the applicant had “ties...

On 25 October 2017, the highest Dutch administrative court, Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State) (Council of State) overruled a decision of the Midden-Nederland Court concerning a request for public access to government information about the air crash of Flight MH17. Both parties - the Minister of Justice and Security and the Dutch media organisations (broadcasters ‘NOS’ and RTL Nieuws, and the newspaper ‘De Volkskrant’) - made an appeal in this case that focuses on the decisions about public access to reports by the Ministerial...

On 5 October 2017, the Irish High Court ruled that the broadcaster Channel 4 was entitled to claim “journalistic privilege” over sources for an edition of its investigative television programme series “Dispatches”, broadcast in August 2013. The airline company Ryanair brought an action in defamation against the broadcaster over its "Secrets from the Cockpit" programme, which dealt with a number of criticisms of Ryanair over its fuel policy, passenger safety, and pilot working conditions. In 2014, an order for discovery of documentation and material used in the making of the programme was made in...