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McNae's Essential Law for Journalists

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ISBN-10: 0199284180

ISBN-13: 9780199284184

Edition: 18th 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Tom Welsh, Walter Greenwood, David Banks, Leonard Cyril James McNae

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An up-to-date text on media law for both practising journalists and students, McNae's explains in a clear, engaging style the effects of the law and the Press Complaints Commission Code of Conduct on newsgathering and publication. Updated to include the effects of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Courts Act 2003, and a brand new chapter on law for photographers, the 18th edition of McNae's is thedefinitive guide to developments in the law as they affect journalists. Online Resource Centre - Providing a test bank of questions, updates, web links, key cases, latest news, and the "Does Your Story Contravene the Official Secrets Act?"…    
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Book details

List price: $41.00
Edition: 18th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 580
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.74" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

Tom Green �is a professor of interactive media in the School of Media Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto. He has written�four previous books on Macromedia technologies, and many articles for numerous magazines and web sites, including the MX Developers Journal , Community MX, and Computer arts. Lastly, he has spoken at over 20 conferences internationally, including FITC, MX North, Digital Design World, TODCON, and SparkEurope.

Walter Greenwood was born in 1903 at Salford in Lancashire. He was educated first at Langworthy Road Council School, Salford, and then by himself. He began part-time work as a milkroundsman's boy when he was twelve, then worked, again part-time, with a pawnbroker, before leaving school at the age of thirteen. He later worked as an office boy, a stable boy, a clerk, a packing case maker, a sign-writer, a car-driver, a warehouseman, and a salesman, never earning more than thirty-five shillings a week except while working for a few months in an automobile factory. He was on the 'dole' at least three times. Love on the Dole, his first novel, was accepted for publication in 1932, and when it…    

Introduction
Starting proceedings: reporting the courts
Crimes
Magistrates courts: summary proceedings
Magistrates courts: preliminary hearings
Juveniles in the courts
The crown court and the appeal courts
Sexual offences and other statutory restrictions
Magistrates courts: civil functions
The civil courts
Admission to the courts and access to court information
Challenging the courts
Divorce
Bankruptcy and company liquidation
Inquests
Tribunals and inquiries
Contempt of court
Defamation
What the claimant must prove
How much protection?
Criminal libel, slander, and malicious falsehoods
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
Breach of confidence
The journalist's sources
Race relations
Election law
Information from government
Copyright
Official secrets
Human Rights Act 1998
The Codes
Privacy
Data Protection Act 1998
The broadcast journalist
Northern Ireland
Glossary
Book list
Appendix: Will your story contravene the Official Secrets Act?
Index