Netherlands: : Amsterdam Court of Appeals rules media may assume factual correctness of news agency reports

• Autores: Robert van Schaik
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 10, 2015, págs. 23-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In its judgment of 16 June 2015, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal decided that media may assume that press reports published by the news agency ANP are factually correct. The case concerned two articles written by journalists of the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on the involvement of former directors in the bankruptcy of investment fund Partrust. The investment fund had been under investigation by the Dutch public prosecutor and the Autoriteit Financiele Markten (Financial Markets Authority - AFM) for large-scale investment fraud and undertaking a pyramid scheme for over five years