I was live-tweeting today from the High Court hearing of Paul Chambers’s appeal in the 'Twitter joke' case – an important case not just because of the way it represents the law’s arguably problematic collision with social media but because of the freedom of expression issues is raises. The hearing was interesting from a purely legal point of view, too. Chambers was convicted by a District Judge at Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on the basis of this tweet:
February 08, 2012 at 02:24 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
I was live-tweeting today from the High Court hearing of Paul Chambers’s appeal in the ‘Twitter joke’ case – an important case not just because of the way it represents the law’s arguably problematic collision with social media but because of the freedom of expression issues is raises. The hearing was interesting from a purely legal point of view, too.
Chambers was convicted by a District Judge at Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on the basis of this tweet:
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