Is Chee Soon Juan in prison?
More grim news from Singapore. Democratic Party leader Chee Soon Juan was sentenced to 12 days in jail on Monday 2 June. He was found guilty of contempt of court during his own defamation trial....
View ArticleGopalan Nair – bloglines update
The Gopalan Nair case is beginning to attract some attention. SGpolitics.net is a good place to get updates. A 6 June update quotes a US Embassy official as saying: ‘The embassy continues to follow the...
View ArticleVeitch: “It felt like a trial”
Tony Veitch has spoken publicly for the first time in almost eight months. In a statement sent to the Sunday Star Times and reported today, Veitch thanked Sky TV sports presenter Murray Deaker for...
View ArticleLegal letter freaks Big News – should the Internet be “Adults Only”?
A week ago I mentioned an interesting little blogwar breaking out in Wellington, now the skirmish has gone nuclear with one protagonist sending a lawyer’s letter to Dave Crampton host of the Big News...
View ArticleBig News apology – Salient editor admits mistakes
Good news. The legal action threatened against Wellington-based blogger Dave Crampton for alleged defamation has been dropped. Dave has posted the details, so I won’t repeat them here. However, EM...
View ArticleTwitdef encouraging more forensic scrutiny of The Australian
Have you seen Caroline Ovington’s short Media Diary entry on the #twitdef saga from The Australian. It was written one day after Julie Posetti received a lawyer’s letter demanding an apology to Chris...
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