European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland

In a case against Iceland the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) stated that a journalist responsible for a TV-news item causing prejudice to an identifiable public person, must give relevant evidence that he or she has been acting in good faith as pertains to the accuracy of the allegations in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Voorhoof, Dirk
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: European Audiovisual Observatory 2017
Subjects:
Law and Political Science
Freedom of expression and information
journalism
public persons
reputation
criteria for balancing assessment
accuracy of allegations
protection of sources
HRC
Iceland
Online Access:https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8532147
http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8532147
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8532147/file/8532148
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Summary:In a case against Iceland the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) stated that a journalist responsible for a TV-news item causing prejudice to an identifiable public person, must give relevant evidence that he or she has been acting in good faith as pertains to the accuracy of the allegations in the news item. The ECtHR also made clear that a journalist cannot shield behind his right to protect his sources where he cannot produce evidence of serious accusations uttered in a news item, tarnishing a person’s reputation as protected under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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