I wrote this article with Pamela Stein for The Sunday Independent in December 2011.

Media freedom suffered some major blows in 2011, not least by the National Assembly’s passing of the Protection of State Information Bill, known in some quarters as the “secrecy bill”. Much has been written about that draft legislation, and it suffices to say that if it is passed in its current form, it will have a chilling effect on media freedom and access to information.

But while the legislature has come under fire, in the area of defamation our courts have in general handed down important rulings in favour of freedom of the media.

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Freedom of expression has suffered two body blows in the Protection of State Information Bill and the Malema Equality Court ruling. I wrote this article with partner, Nozipho Mngomezulu, for the Mail & Guardian on the freedom of expression.

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July 2011 will go down in history as a month the media in the UK will never forget. The telephone hacking scandal claimed the scalps of the London police commissioner, the assistant commissioner and various senior managers of News International; resulted in 11 arrests; and led to the closure of the famous News of the World tabloid.

I wrote this article about media freedom in July 2011, for the Sunday Times.

In April 2011, I wrote about a ground-breaking defamation case for the Sunday Times.

The Constitutional Court handed down a ground-breaking decision in the defamation case brought by Robert McBride, the former Ekurhuleni metro police chief, against The Citizen newspaper, who had called McBride a criminal and a murderer. The decision gives much-needed breathing space to the media, allowing more robust criticism of public figures.

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I wrote this article with associate Greg Palmer for the Daily Maverick on defamation in March, 2011.

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