Emiel Jurjens

The fifth edition of the internationally renowned International Libel and Privacy Handbook has just been published by LexisNexis. Jens van den Brink and Emiel Jurjens wrote the chapter on libel and privacy law in The Netherlands.

The Handbook contains practical and concise answers for media content providers worldwide to questions which are directly relevant to everyday journalistic practice in many countries. Questions discussed include who can sue for libel and on what grounds, the varying interpretations of the right to privacy in different countries and legal aspects of various journalistic methods (such as recording and/or broadcasting conversations).

The Handbook is available now both as e-book and print book.

The ground-breaking Costeja González judgment of the ECJ was followed in the Netherlands by several proceedings about the ‘right to be forgotten’. This was also the objective of recent preliminary relief proceedings brought by a convicted killer. Having served his term, he has been trying to erase all online links between his name and the crime. In these attempts he met with resistance from an interest group and the father of his victim, who make online publications about the murder. The killer started preliminary relief proceedings for the removal and keeping removed of publications of the defendants containing both his name and details of his crime. The Court in preliminary relief proceedings ruled (pdf) [Read more…] about Google Spain in the Netherlands III: does convicted murderer have ‘right to be forgotten’?

In 2012 a woman from Amsterdam called D. was convicted in summary proceedings for Cyberstalking, Identity Theft, Harassment, Threats and Defamation. She had been stalking the American film maker Christopher Johnson IV and the actress Mariana Tosca, mainly through the internet (we wrote about this case here, in Dutch). As far as we are aware, this was the first ruling in the Netherlands about cross-border stalking through the Internet. A special aspect of the case was that it was heard according to American law and that the Dutch court awarded punitive damages.

D. brought an appeal against the judgment. In its ruling, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal [Read more…] about Conviction of cyberstalker upheld on appeal