Tweets, Beaks and Hacks: Court reporting and the law in the age of new media journalism

The University of Melbourne will be hosting an evening of discussion / interview with prominent media lawyer Mark Stephens.

Hosted by Margaret Simons, Mark will reflect on the limits of freedom of speech, and how journalists should operate in the murky area of unauthorised disclosure.

Mark Stephens, CBE in Conversation with Margaret Simons

Mark Stephens is one of the world’s most prominent media lawyers. He is known as former counsel to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the late author Christopher Hitchens and the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He has defended Dow Jones (against Australian Joseph Gutnick), Wall Street Journal and the Guardian (in the ‘Alphabet Soup’ Case) and made a number of interventions in the European Court of Human Rights in free speech cases. He was also a victim of phone hacking by News of the World.

He has specialised in media law and intellectual property for the past 27 years and has a multinational practice which has included some of the most high profile cases in this field.

He has been a legal commentator for Sky TV, The Times and the Guardian, appeared on BBC Radio and in 2010 named among the Evening Standard’s 1000 most influential people in London. Mark has contributed to two books, Miscarriages of Justice: a review of justice in error (1999) and International Libel and Privacy Handbook (2005).

Carlton(Parkville Campus)

The University of Melbourne

When:

Friday 30 Mar 2012 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm (Australia/Melbourne)

Tickets are free, but seats are limited, so if interested, please click the following link to register.