The inclusion of privacy criteria in freedom of expression cases is prompting concerns from experts that the result could be the undermining of media efforts to uncover the truth, The Guardian reports. A series of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgments “has begun to blur the boundaries between privacy and defamation cases,” the report states, citing concerns from legal experts and advocates that “the ECHR precedents could ‘hamper investigative journalism’ in Europe.” Media and privacy expert Hugh Tomlinson warns, “In three recent defamation cases the (ECHR) has analysed the issues not on the basis of truth and verification but using criteria designed to strike a balance … in privacy cases.”
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