Daily Archives: August 2, 2011

Liverpool John Moores University drops libel threat against Robert Halfon MP

Liverpool John Moores University has dropped its threat of a libel action against Robert Halfon MP.  Mr Halfon had criticised the University’s commercial links with the Libyan regime. The University’s external lawyers had sent a formal letter before action to Mr Halfon demanding an unqualified withdrawal of the statements, an undertaking not to repeat them,…

Preiskel & Co quoted on the front page of the Financial Times regarding who owns a professional twitter or facebook account 

The Financial Times article linked to below covers the question of who owns a professional Twitter or Facebook account, which was highlighted when Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s chief political correspondent and enthusiastic Twitter user with a loyal following of more than 60,000 people, was poached by ITV News.  In this front page news article, David Allen…