23 May 11 | Uncategorized
How’s your private life? Think about it. Is there anything potentially embarrassing there? Is there anything — maybe just one little thing about your sexual tastes or your internet habits or your relations with, or thoughts about, other people — that you would rather your partner didn’t know? Or the kids? Or your mother? Or the people at work? (more…)
20 May 11 | News and features
The position of the media reporting parliamentary injunction breaches is “astonishingly unclear” says Lord Neuberger. Judith Townend reports (more…)
20 May 11 | Index Reports, News and features
Responding to the Master of the Rolls’ report on the use of superinjunctions, Jo Glanville, Editor of Index on Censorship said:
Lord Neuberger’s recommendations will bring much needed clarity to the use of injunctions. There has been a widespread perception that the courts have increasingly undermined open justice and free speech in favour of privacy.
The proposals in this report will go some way towards correcting the imbalance by providing clear guidelines, reaffirming the fundamental principles of open justice and freedom of expression, and offering for the first time a mechanism for monitoring the use of injunctions.
Super Injunction Report 20052011
09 May 11 | News and features
This piece first appeared in the Observer
Ahead of tomorrow’s crucial European judgment on privacy and prior notification, we recap Max Mosley and John Kampfner’s recent privacy debate. Are court gagging orders on newspaper exposés an abuse of privacy laws by the rich, or a safeguard against tabloid intrusion into family life?
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