McNae's Essential Law for Journalists 27th ed

Part 1: The Landscape of Law, Ethics and Regulation
1: Introduction
2: Press regulation
3: Broadcast regulation

Part 2: Crime, Courts and Tribunals
4: Crime: media coverage prior to any court case
5: Crimes: categories and definitions
6: Magistrates courts: summary cases
7: Magistrates courts: the most serious criminal cases
8: Crown courts and appeal courts
9: Juveniles in criminal and anti-social behaviour cases
10: Sexual offences
11: Court reporting - other restrictions
12: Civil courts
13: Family courts
14: Open justice and access to court information
15: Challenging the courts
16: Coroners courts
17: Tribunals and public inquiries
18: Contempt of court

Part 3: Defamation and Related Law
19: Defamation - definitions and dangers
20: The claimant and what must be proved
21: Defences
22: The public interest defence
23: The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
24: Slander, malicious falsehood and obscenity

Part 4: Confidentiality, Privacy and Copyright
25: Breach of confidence
26: Privacy
27: News-gathering avoiding intrusion
28: Data protection
29: Copyright

Part 5: Information and Expression
30: Freedom of Information Act 2000
31: Other information rights and access to meetings
32: Reporting elections
33: Official secrets
34: The journalist's sources and neutrality
35: The risks of being charged with bribery, misconduct, hacking or intercepting
36: The right to take photographs, film and record
37: Northern Ireland

Part 6: Online Chapters
38: The incitement of hate
39: Scotland
40: Terrorism and the effect of counter-terrorism law