The Media Standards Trust has now posted video footage of the MST/Inforrm event on 11 January 2011. This can be accessed on You Tube in a number of parts from the image below.
Whitewashing the Art World: What’s Behind the Climate of Censorship « Clancco
Whitewashing the Art World: What’s Behind the Climate of Censorship
The New York Observer’s Alexandra Peers tackles the issues of censorship and silencing that seems to be pervasive in her article, Whitewashing the Art World: What’s Behind the Climate of Censorship.
The art world has a reputation as free-thinking and tolerant, if not overly so. But in recent weeks, there have been several instances, far more than usual, of alleged censorship involving some of the bigger names in the field. What’s going on?
Charles Gaines has also written about this very same issue, and so have I.
What is going on?
via clancco.com
Airlines make €285m on ‘no shows’ | Irish Examiner
IRELAND’S two leading airlines are making over €285 million clear profit per annum by holding on to taxes and charges paid by passengers who fail to show up for flights. The operators of a new service to assist Irish air travellers to reclaim refunds of taxes, fees and charges (TFCs), claim Ryanair and Aer Lingus are engaging in “unfair practice” over their handling of the issue. The company, Airtaxrefund.com, said it had dealt with passengers of over 500 flights since its service was launched last October. A survey of such claims indicated Aer Lingus owes an average refund of taxes, fees and charges of €40 per passenger and Ryanair an average refund of €35 per passenger. … The National Consumer Agency has also warned airlines that it is considering a High Court challenge to compel them to refund TFCs to passengers who cancel flights. …
via examiner.ie
If the NCA does take the claim, it has a very good chance of success. See my posts Can you recover taxes and charges from airlines when you don’t travel? (16 Nov 2010); What are websites for? (9 March 2008); Airlines are facing legal challenge over refunds (30 October 2007); Refunding unincurred airport taxes and charges (26 March 2007).
Bad bank has four remedies for ‘clawback’ – Irish, Business – Independent.ie
Friday January 14 2011
THE National Asset Management Agency has four legal ways to overturn property transfers — including transfers by developers to spouses, children and other third parties — that it believes were aimed at defrauding current or future creditors. …
If a developer is bankrupt, transfers in the two years leading up to the bankruptcy can be set aside. Transfers in the previous five years can also be set aside in a bankruptcy unless a developer can prove that he was solvent at the time he transferred or gifted the asset.
If property was transferred before 2009, NAMA can use the 1634 Conveyancing Act Ireland which allows property conveyances and other transactions to be declared void if they are made for the purpose of delaying, hindering or defrauding creditors. If property was transferred after December 1, 2009, the 2009 Land and Conveyancing Reform Act allows for transfers to be set aside if there was an intention to defraud a creditor.
Finally, the NAMA Act itself contains a miscellaneous provision that gives the toxic loans agency powers to void transfers effected by debtors and those who provided loan guarantees, including personal guarantees.
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via independent.ie
Court orders life-saving transfusion – The Irish Times – Wed, Jan 12, 2011
Court orders life-saving transfusion
MARY CAROLAN
A life-saving blood transfusion was administered to a critically ill baby under a court order secured by a Dublin hospital at a late night court hearing in a High Court judge’s home after the child’s parents, members of the Jehovah Witness faith, objected on religious grounds to the procedure, it has emerged.
The baby boy, who became very unwell on Christmas Day and whose condition continued to deteriorate, received the transfusion shortly after a hearing which concluded at 2.30am on December 27th in Mr Justice Gerard Hogan’s home, the judge revealed today.
via irishtimes.com
The decision is Temple Street v D [2011] IEHC 1 (12 January 2011):
35. There is thus no doubt at all but that parents have the constitutional right to raise their children by reference to their own religious and philosophical views. But, as Article 42.5 [of the Constitution] makes clear, that right is not absolute. The State has a vital interest in ensuring that children are protected, so that a new cohort of well-rounded, healthy and educated citizens can come to maturity and are thus given every opportunity to develop in life.
60 Holmes quotes on free speech via firstamendmentcenter.org
As Justice Holmes said …
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on free speech & related matters: selected quotationsIntroduction by Ronald K.L. Collins
First Amendment scholar
05.21.08
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Modern free-speech jurisprudence begins with the words and wisdom of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Whatever one may make of that, it is impossible to deny. Whether Holmes was a liberal or a libertarian, a pragmatist or a nihilist, a defender of individual rights or majority will, a social Darwinist or a totalitarian, or a “Jekyll-Holmes and Hyde-Holmes” as law professor Albert Alschuler has branded him, is difficult to say without nuanced elaboration. What is easier to gauge is his enormous impact on how we — laypeople and lawyers alike — think and talk about our system of freedom of expression. This is not necessarily because of the analytical soundness of his opinions, but rather, to echo Judge Richard Posner, because of his “rhetorical skill.” That is, “Holmes was a great judge because he was a great literary artist.”
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Mindful of all of this and more, the selection of 60 quotes offered below is submitted for the reader’s examination, duly mindful of his or her right to dissent.
Freedom of expression in the crosshairs
In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six other people in Arizona last week, a fierce debate has broken out over the heated political rhetoric – often coarse, martial, and vitriolic – that is now distressingly commonplace in US political discourse. The specific background is a map which appeared on Sarah Palin‘s website targeting the seats of political opponents – including Rep. Giffords – in rifle-sight cross-hairs, and which has therefore focussed signficant attention on Palin’s confused response to the tragedy. Of course, politicians and pundits across the political spectrum have used such language and imagery, and the issues of principle arise in the context of the general standard of debate rather than in the context of any particular politician, pundit or party. I want in this post to set out some of the general free speech arguments that I have come across since Saturday. …
Man ‘used TV legal dramas to impersonate lawyer’ – Telegraph
Man ‘used TV legal dramas to impersonate lawyer’
A man has been accused of impersonating a lawyer in more than 50 court cases after watching TV legal dramas including ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘Boston Legal’for tips.
Tahir Malik, who has no legal training, often watched the shows and picked up what to say and how to file court motions, according to his father.. [and]fooled courts in Cook County, Illinois, for several years. … He was eventually discovered last month when a court clerk became suspicious about his behaviour and asked to see his legal credentials.
via telegraph.co.uk
An interesting use for court-room dramas, eh, Ted? But what does it say about law schools that Malik got that far?
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