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Leading media law trainer and consultant. Commentator on the law for TV and radio. Author and journalist writing for national newspapers, magazines and the web.
Sep 16, 2018 9 tweets 2 min read
Katie Hopkins applies for insolvency agreement to avoid bankruptcy theguardian.com/media/2018/sep… - a short thread on Katie, the law, and how this all might have been avoided if she hadn’t been so trigger-happy with the block button... You see, Katie blocked me a long, long time ago. Before all this blew up. Not because of anything I tweeted to her, but because *a lot* of people were pointing her in my direction...
Feb 18, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
A quick thread on the ridiculous abuse aimed @hendopolis over #TomorrowsPapersToday and #BrendanCox... Firstly, the repetition rule in libel, which is painfully simple, if you repeat a libel you are liable for it. This includes RTs...