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I think that before long, the govt will have to step in and make changes to the laws on libel and reporting. The Simon Singh case, Andrew Marr and the ridiculous limits on even reporting the fact that he asked for a ban on reporting his court case, etc.

Whatever happened to "publish and be damned"? We can't go about witholding things in the public interest on the off-chance that it will have a detrimental effect on someone.

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Isn't Parliament on TV these days? And what about Hansard, are they also banned from reporting? :?

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The register appears to have information on people who have had a "guess" on which question it is.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.


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This has been covered in Private Eye at length recently. These so-called "super-injunctions" - where it's technically contempt of court to even mention the existence of the injunction - have come in for much derision. They are blamed on lazy judges granting them late on an evening - the High Court has apparently ruled previously that such injunctions should not be used as they restrict freedom of speech.

EDIT: It involves law firm Carter-Fuck, why am I not surprised?

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This has been covered in Private Eye at length recently. These so-called "super-injunctions" - where it's technically contempt of court to even mention the existence of the injunction - have come in for much derision. They are blamed on lazy judges granting them late on an evening - the High Court has apparently ruled previously that such injunctions should not be used as they restrict freedom of speech.

EDIT: It involves law firm Carter-Fuck, why am I not surprised?


I love Private Eye for that stuff, they always get as close as it's legally possible to get :D

The Andrew Marr stuff will come out before long :)

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The solicitors have backed down, the Guardian have printed their story - after the Twitter- and Blogverse spread it around the globe this morning... :lol:

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Isn't Parliament on TV these days? And what about Hansard, are they also banned from reporting? :?

Nope both alive and well hansard is even on the web :D every copy thats ever been published.

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The solicitors have backed down, the Guardian have printed their story - after the Twitter- and Blogverse spread it around the globe this morning... :lol:

Yes I saw that before I even read the story. It was news on Reddit, and leaked on wikileaks as well.

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