Huge day for publishing news yesterday – the Dan Brown verdict; Virgin Books’ MD resigning and them laying off staff – and of course it was Friday so any self-respecting journalist is in the pub by noon.
Perfect day, then, for a piece of news you’d been planning to hold on to until next week to [...]

In 1961 a test case ended up in the House of Lords. The case was called Shaw v Director of Public Prosecutions and it has since become as famous to law students as Donohue v Stevenson or Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company.
It goes a little something like this…
Mr Shaw was a publisher, a bit [...]