And you thought that the Johnny Depp and Amanda Heard relationship was toxic ... why the press needs a superhero (just not Captain Jack Sparrow)

摘要

In deciding what to write about for this Editorial I was not short of topics and material. I could have talked about how the Court of Justice of the European Union has, in one fell swoop, caused a headache of Captain Jack Sparrow-hangover proportions (more on him in a moment) for many businesses around Europe by invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield. The decision in Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Case C-311/18 (aka Schrems Ⅱ), has brought into question whether any transfers to the US can be valid, and has opened up the Binding Corporate Rules regime, which is used by some of the world's biggest multinational groups, to challenge. Alternatively, I could have discussed the 'libel trial of the year' between Johnny Depp and News Group Newspapers (John Christopher Depp Ⅱ v News Group Newspapers Limited and Dan Wootton). In case you need reminding, Johnny Depp sued the publisher of The Sun newspaper, and its Executive Editor over an article it published online on 27 April 2018 entitled 'GONE POTTY: How can JK Rowling be "genuinely happy" casting Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?'1 (the headline to this article was amended from: 'GONE POTTY How can JK Rowling be "genuinely happy" casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?') and a similar article published in print the following day under the headline 'How can JK Rowling be "genuinely happy" to cast Depp after assault claim'. Depp claimed the articles were defamatory because they called him a 'wife beater' who was guilty of domestic violence against his former wife, the actress Amanda Heard.