Becky Hasnip

Dramatherapist, Supervisor & EMDR Therapist in West Sussex. Over 25 years experience with varied client base. Working in Forensic Healthcare & at Beacon House

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Headlines will never be the same again.

Dale Vince’s landmark victory over the @DailyMail.

A landmark victory has been handed down by the the Court of Appeal with three of the country’s more senior judges (Wednesday 15 July) following a three-year legal battle between Green Entrepreneur Dale Vince and the Daily Mail. This new ruling will protect people from misleading media articles by establishing a new duty of fairness.

Dale Vince has won his legal battle, against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail+, over a June 2023 article headlined "Labour repays £100,000 to 'sex harassment' donor". The article reported on the Labour Party returning donations from Davide Serra, who was the subject of an employment tribunal finding for sexual harassment.

However, the article prominently featured not one but two pictures of Vince, one highlighted - holding a Just Stop Oil banner. Vince argued that this clearly led readers to believe he was the subject of the misconduct allegations.

Lawyers acting for Mr Vince used GDPR legislation to argue that the Daily Mail had mistreated the Labour donor and green industrialist by unfairly processing his personal information.

The Daily Mail now faces substantial costs and damages.

Dale Vince OBE said: “It sounds grand, because it is - headlines won’t be the same again after this ruling. Not just headlines but articles too.

Three years ago the Mail ran a highly misleading headline, using pictures of me in a headline not about me. It was a damaging reputational attack. The Daily Mail thought they could get away with it because they were protected by a libel law that was so old, it almost predated the internet.  

They were wrong.

The fallacy at the heart of libel law is the assumption that people read both headlines and articles in full. We all know this is not true; we all scan headlines and think we know what the story is. But that element of libel law has stood for over three decades, while the internet grew, social media came into the world, and our attention spans famously shrank. Libel Law in our country is not fit for purpose. It needs updating for the modern era.

That’s not a fight I intend to pursue.

I think I’ve done enough for now…:).

This landmark ruling, based on legislation and assumptions of behaviour from this century will change media behaviour in Britain - starting now.  And it is likely to have the same effect in Europe, as GDPR legislation is European wide. Huge credit goes to my lawyers, Brett Wilson - for this.

Not everybody has the will and the resources to fight powerful media groups like the Daily Mail. Many people facing similar injustices simply have to live with it, grin and bear it. Not anymore, the biggest outcome of this three year battle, for me, is that nobody now will face that same treatment and have no affordable recourse.

From today newspaper headlines will never be the same again - because media outlets have a new duty of fairness and we the people have a new means to enforce it. Something so many of our media outlets fail to do voluntarily to their great shame - is now not a choice. The Daily Mail faces substantial costs and damages, but worse than that for them is this new duty of fairness - that appears to throw their current business model out of the window."

Mic drop....:)

[Bathong, Kedibone @KediboneBathong]

According to royalists (who by the way insist they are not racist), the woman in frame 1 was being “narcissistic and disgusting for including herself in the picture��. The woman in frame 2 however, was “elegant and classy for supporting her husband in the picture”. I wonder what the reason is for the difference🤔

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@drsanjoykumar @hundredfamilies Also copies of minutes go to patients and family and on patient record.

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@drsanjoykumar @hundredfamilies Awful practice. Where I work MDT working with a patient write overview of contact in last 2 wks. This is part of formatted doc. On day of meeting all notes r read out discussed with most/all of MDT present & patients, family and external prof. All conversations also minuted.

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@rebecca_ryder21 Absolutely true!! Also many buildings are rented by NHS so the companies charge ridiculous fees. The hidden privatisation that’s been slowly going on for many many years.

[NHS England @NHSEngland]

Thank you to all our incredible NHS staff working over the Christmas period 💙

From nurses, doctors and midwives to paramedics, pharmacists and porters, thank you for continuing to care for our loved ones each and every day.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

If you will never vote for reform please like and repost

Let's show the polls are incorrect

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This guy has a rare gift nowadays. Critical thinking.

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@keteneh I can see why you see that however Jere was so much happier in himself after they broke up. He admitted he was scared of being alone, he admitted he stopped Belly going to Paris. At the end he was no longer trying to prove himself to his Dad or to Belly he was happy for himself.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Angela Rayner was smeared and dragged through the mud, yet Nigel Farage openly avoids tax on his GB News cash through a company and no one will bat an eyelid.
So will there be calls for him to resign? Or do we just pick on women??
I mean - Tax evasions scams are the true mark of a real patriot! Loves his country so much that he pays the least amount of tax he can!

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@TheRealJamieKay 😂

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@fuffylvr My point was not about discrediting their relationship but more about his astute observation that in being with him she was in some way trying to prove she didn’t need or want Conrad. I’m neither teams btw. I’ve always been team bros and anti letting a woman come between them.

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@zarapliers I think he’s the opposite. He & Belly have both avoided having the deep & meaningful conversations. neither of them have admitted their fears they’ve just carried on. Meanwhile Conrad has also avoided too by literally not being there. All 3 are final honest on the wedding day

[The King's Fund @TheKingsFund]

The NHS workforce is in crisis.

Fear, relentless pressure and uncertainty have trapped staff in survival mode.

With the arrival of the 10 Year Health Plan, now is the time for bold action. In this long read, Sharon Nash explores why: https://t.co/AgnT3k0Ad4

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I'm going to try a little experiment. It's just gone 9:00am, London and parts of southern England are under an "Amber" weather warning, let's how long it takes for the sewage dumping to start and how it progresses over the next few hours.

Oh look, it's only been raining for a few hours and the dumping's started already. Well done to @SouthernWater, @thameswater, @AnglianWater.

[Becky Hasnip @bhasnip]

@sharrond62 To be honest most people don’t vote or don’t understand
Politics. I say give the vote as soon as you can make a mark on the page. I have more faith in a 2 year old putting a scribble on the page than most adults.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"London ‘super sewer’ boss awarded £600,000 pay rise despite £100m cost overrun."

You'd never guess that Thames Water's customers now have a £25 surcharge on the water bills, for the next 20 years, to pay for this nonsense.

https://t.co/6LNrHLaSky