Free Speech in an Online World – Is online media a Wild West that needs a sheriff? Is regulation of the media incompatible with free speech? What role does the law have to play in ensuring and curtailing free speech? Join the Young Barristers’ Committee of the Bar Council and the Foreign Press Association at the second Young Barristers Primer series to discuss these issues and network over drinks with media professionals.

Speakers for this event include:

Sir Alan Moses, Chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation

Greg Callus, Barrister, 5RB

Clara Hamer, Barrister, One Brick Court

Jonathan Ames, Legal and Business Affairs Writer and Editor; Co-Editor of ‘The Brief’ (The Times); and

Pia Sarma, Editorial Legal Director, Times Newspapers.