Last 30 posts

• Media law developments in the third quarter of 2021

  October 12, 2021

• Ramos takes on Independent Newspapers – lessons in co-regulation and accountability

  June 9, 2021

• When David met Judge Goliath – SLAPPs in SA law

  February 24, 2021

• The spy who notified me: Six-love to amaBhungane in the RICA Constitutional Court case

  February 9, 2021

• Manuel v Malema in the Supreme Court of Appeal

  December 23, 2020

• Season 1 of media law podcasts now complete: Publish responsibly

  May 22, 2020

• Media law Podcast – Episode 4 (Media ethics)

  May 15, 2020

• More media law podcasts – disinformation and surveillance

  May 7, 2020

• Webber Wentzel media law podcasts

  April 24, 2020

• COVID-19 and location surveillance

  April 20, 2020

• Criminalising fake news about COVID-19

  March 25, 2020

• Snowden, Sam Sole, Sutherland and Surveillance

  September 20, 2019

• Why waving the apartheid flag is hate speech

  September 12, 2019

• Manuel v Malema and the legal consequences of fake news

  June 3, 2019

• Identifying suspects: Cliff Richard v the BBC, and SA law

  August 28, 2018

• Inxeba – Court papers

  April 5, 2018

• Henri van Breda, Visvanathan Ponnan and cameras in the court

  June 29, 2017

• The Hate Speech Bill and satire

  March 6, 2017

• Signal jamming, parliamentary broadcasts, evicting MPs, and access to share registers – the appeal courts speak

  October 8, 2016

• ANC Legal Research Group workshop on the Protection of State Information Bill

  August 23, 2016

• Media law and free speech in 2015 and 2016 so far

  February 27, 2016

• The timely demise of criminal defamation law

  October 4, 2015

• Are some politicians scandalising the court?

  July 17, 2015

• Access to court papers is part of open justice

  June 22, 2015

• “It tolls for open justice” – City of Cape Town v Sanral

  April 13, 2015

• Democratic Alliance v African National Congress – The Nkandla SMS case

  January 30, 2015

• 2014: A Bumper Year for Media Law

  January 24, 2015

• Lights, Camera, Oscar!* — Did Judge Masipa find in her judgment that the broadcast led to an unfair trial?

  October 20, 2014

• Media Law Newsletter – August 2014

  August 15, 2014

• Griekwastad convicted murderer turns 18 — now may we identify him?

  August 15, 2014