The stupid restrictions were removed before the Guardian got to court.
Carter-Ruck may have gone that step too far. The Law Society and their Lordships perhaps have more than a little to whisper in their shell-likes re a legal firm’s interpretation of Parliamentary Privilege.
The story as was:
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.
Mainstream media versus old school lawyers. New media wins…
Image: the great Matt Buck
October 14th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I think Mr E might be overstating his case here.
There were at least 20 articles on guardian.co.uk on Trafigura’s attempted cover-up before this blew up.
I’ll wager their readership spanks the bottoms of the blogs he mentions.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Both are tops blogs - Hack is a friend of Anorak and is anyone has any cash, we have plans for an Anorak web TV show…
October 14th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for those links to Mr Eugenides and Hack. I haven’t seen those sites before and there’s some interesting reading.
I love the file sharing drawing