LAW3280
Reading List 2021-22

Media Law, 2021/22, Semester 1
Rebecca Moosavian
R.Z.Moosavian@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue

Frances Quinn, Law for journalists : a guide to media law, 6th ed, 2018 , Pearson Student to purchase This is for student purchase, but it would be useful to have e-copies available in the library too.

Ursula Smartt, Media & entertainment law, 2017 3rd ed, Routledge Core

Jacob Rowbottom, Media Law, 2018, Hart please ensure that hard copies (&, if possible, an e-copy) are available via the library

Mark Hanna & Mike Dodd, McNae's Essfential Law for Journalists (Oxford, 2018, 24th edition).

Eric Barendt, Freedom of Speech, 2005, 2nd ed, OUP Core especially chapter 1

Daniel Solove, Understanding Privacy, 2008 Harvard University Press, especiall chapter 4 OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (MH 06/10/2021)

Useful reading on legal skills:

Emily Finch & Stefan Fafinski, Legal Skills, Oxford, 2019, 7th edition, chapter 15 (answering problem questions) and chapter 14 (writing essays). Digital copy please - if it is not already available digitally. Could we also please digitise chapter 15.

Chapter 15 Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Five important recommended cases by subject area:

[1] Open justice and court reporting

AG v English [1983] 1 AC 116

AG v Mirror Group Newspapers [1997] EMLR 284 (Knights)

Re S (A Child) [2004] UKHL 47

AG v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWHC 2074 (Admin) (Jefferies)

AG v Associated Newspapers [2012] EWHC 2029 (Admin) (Bellfield)

[2] Copyright law

Fisher v Brooker [2006] EWHC 3239

Baigent v Random House (Da Vinci code case) [2007] EWCA Civ 247

Newspaper Licensing Agency v Meltwater [2011] EWCA Civ 89