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Pre-Publication Advice
MRW has previously worked for various national newspapers as a night-lawyer for over ten years.
She has worked on the news floors consulting with journalists, advising over the telephone, and reading through articles, legally editing copy and reviewing photographs to avoid legal action being initiated against the publisher.
This is libel reading and pre-publication advice.
It is essentially a damage limitation exercise. It includes advising on issues of confidentiality, privacy, defamation of character, use of photographs and copyright issues.
She simultaneously also worked for an independent, award-winning, multi-million pound celebrity book publisher performing the same legal work.
The books and biographies covered ranged from pop stars, movie stars, and sports stars, to politicians and high profile villans.
Post-Publication Advice
She also conducted post publication work by defending the publisher from complaints once the books were published.
Civil, respectful and skillful negotiation, amendment and settlement can often resolve the situation with recourse to court.
Print Media & Digital Media
The same principles as apply to print media in terms of the law of defamation, copyright, use of photographs, confidentiality and breach of privacy apply to magazines and books. They also still largely apply to online-postings.
Significantly though, in terms of facebook messages, instagram messages, you tube messages and other online-postings the main difference with online behaviour and print media is that online behaviour is often amateur, anonymous and repulsively malicious.
Practically legal warnings and notices commonly sent to the traditional print publishers are not so readily served upon online users and publishers. They Can Nonetheless Find Themselves Subject To Legal Action And A Number of High Profile Cases Have Already Been Brought To Court.
However Things Are Changing
Significant reforms have seen a large overhaul of the British Civil Justice System at the heart of which is a desire to reduce legal costs and increase court management efficiency. Similar reforms have taken place in the Criminal Justice system too. This has led to greater judicial intolerance of avoidable legal cases, protracted legal cases and behaviour which interferes with unavoidable legal cases already on-going.
Subsequently, civil cases are being dealt with more swiftly and the CPS has issued guidelines on how to use social media more responsibly to avoid interference with the proper administration of Justice.
The recent spate of high profile criminal convictions as a result of mis-use of social media reflects how seriously the Judiciary are now taking this issue.
Ever increasing cases brought under the Malicious Communications Act reflect this too.
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