The Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC will give the keynote speech on Freedom of Information at the Law for Journalists conference tomorrow.
The conference will examine a wide variety of legal problems faced by the media on a day-to-day basis and provide practical help and updates on the law. Lord Justice Judge, the Deputy Chief Justice, will open the conference.
Other topics addressed will include:
Open justice and court reporting – John Battle, head of compliance at ITN
Confidence and ‘privacy’ claims: a threat to the local and national media? – Dan Tench, media partner at Olswang;
Investigations, secret filming, undercover reporting and how to safeguard your story – Jan Tomalin, head of legal and compliance at Channel 4;
Media websites: risk reminder and risk reduction – Geraldine Proudler, partner and head of litigation group, at Olswang;
Freedom of Information – Using your right to know – chaired by Maurice Frankel, director, Campaign for Freedom of Information ;
The Media and Freedom of Information – Paul Francis, political editor of the Kent Messenger, Frank le Duc, journalist at the Times, David Hencke, Westminster correspondent at the Guardian and Tony Collins, reporter at Computer Weekly;
The Government press officer, the media and freedom of information – Lucian Hudson, director of communications at the Department of Constitutional Affairs;
The law, the media and freedom of information, Michael Smyth, partner and head of public policy at Clifford Chance;
How to land a celebrity scoop without landing in court – privacy laws and litigious celebrities – Jane Johnson, editor of Closer magazine and Caroline Kean, partner and head of the litigation department at Wiggin and Co;
Defamation – Andrew Caldecott QC.
The conference, backed by the Newspaper Society and the Press Gazette, will be held at the Royal Society for the Arts.
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