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European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland

Dirk Voorhoof (UGent)
(2017) IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY.
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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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Freedom of expression and information, journalism, public persons, reputation, criteria for balancing assessment, accuracy of allegations, protection of sources, HRC

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MLA
Voorhoof, Dirk. “European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland.” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, no. 8, European Audiovisual Observatory, 2017.
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Voorhoof, D. (2017). European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland. IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, (8).
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Voorhoof, Dirk. 2017. “European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland.” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, no. 8.
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Voorhoof, Dirk. 2017. “European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland.” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY (8).
Vancouver
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Voorhoof D. European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland. IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY. 2017;(8).
IEEE
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D. Voorhoof, “European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland,” IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY, no. 8, 2017.
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  abstract     = {{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.}},
  author       = {{Voorhoof, Dirk}},
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  journal      = {{IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY}},
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  title        = {{European Court of Human Rights : Halldórsson v. Iceland}},
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  year         = {{2017}},
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