Are we succeeding in this? What do you like
and dislike about the Southern Africa Media
Law Briefing? What is useful and what is not?
Please tell us.
But please do more than that. This publication is intended to be the vehicle for an informal network of lawyers concerned with media and freedom of expression issues. It will only work if you participate by sending case materials (or whatever) to the editors - or, better still, writing them up yourselves. Many relevant cases remain unreported by conventional means, or are reported too late. This means that the editors will not necessarily know when an important development has taken place. We depend upon you, our readers and correspondents, for that.
A final reminder. If you need to use any of the materials cited in the Southern Africa Media Law Briefing, these are available at the price of copying and transmission from the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
In the near future, the Southern Africa Media Law Briefing will be distributing the first in a series of special supplements reviewing important media law issues and national legal situations. Over a period of a year, this series will build up into an authoritative volume on Southern African media law. Early supplements will include Protection of Journalists' Sources, National Security and Freedom of Expression, Intolerance and Incitement to Hatred, Media Law in South Africa and Media Law in Zambia.