The WLR Daily case summaries
[2020] WLR (D) 189
Queen’s Bench Division
Regina (Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation TV-Novosti) v Office of Communications
[2020] EWHC 689 (Admin)
2019 Oct 15–17; 2020 March 27
Dame Victoria Sharp P, Dingemans LJ
Human rights— Freedom of expression— Interference with— Broadcasting standards regulator finding claimant broadcaster in breach of requirement of “due impartiality” and imposing financial penalty— Whether regulator misinterpreting requirement— Whether disproportionate interference with broadcaster’s right to freedom of expression—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 10
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Communications Act 2003 (c 21), ss 237, 319(1)(2)(c), 320, 392