What’s in a word? Europe’s top court backs journalists accused of using the wrong legal terms
By Emil Weber
Three Icelandic journalists have won a long-running defamation battle over the difference between using the words “investigation” (rannsókn) and “examine” (skoðun) to refer to police actions in response to complaints that have received.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg
Recently, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has questioned the limitation of their freedom of expression, arguing that the correct content and the context of media reporting is more relevant than knowledge of detailed, technical legal terminology.
Mr. Reynir Traustason and Mr. Jón Trausti Reynisson were editors at the newspaper "DV", and Mr. Ingi Freyr Vilhjálmsson was a…
