Your Right to Know: Hidden High Court Injunctions
Saturday, 17 October 2009, 09:53
Heather Brooke: "It is bad enough that superinjunctions exist at all, but it is absolutely appalling that there are not even records kept of how often they are used. Pressure needs to be put on the High Court to record these occasions, and make the details public as a matter of urgency."
Wikipedia: Streisand effect
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:44
Already amended with references to Trafigura and Carter-Ruck: "The Streisand effect is an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. … Mike Masnick originally coined the term Streisand effect in reference to a 2003 incident where Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for US$50 million in an attempt to have the aerial photo of her house removed from the publicly available collection of 12,000 California coastline photographs, citing privacy concerns."
BBC News: When is a secret not a secret?
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:36
Nick Higham: "No injunction has been served on the BBC, but ever since the Spycatcher case in the 1980s, news organisations which knowingly breach an injunction served on others are in contempt of court – so the corporation too is bound by the Guardian injunction. But the lawyers in this case clearly reckoned without the blogosphere. In the anarchic, anything-goes world of the internet, where freedom of speech is a frequently heard rallying cry, injunctions banning publication of anything are unpopular. This one seems to have acted like a red rag to a bull."
One Man and His Blog: The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:33
Adam Tinworth: "a disparate, disaggregated group of individuals were able to work out the basics of what happened, and use Twitter to make the gagging order meaningless. That was mass, connected journalism at its finest."
ZDNet UK: Twitter, Trafigura, trends and treason
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:31
Rupert Goodwins: "Over the past 24 hours, the news about the injunction and the injuncted material was more effectively distributed across the planet than any army of PR merchants and marketing gurus could have hoped to have achieved … It will be a while before the implications of the Trafigura affair are fully absorbed: if nothing else, it will make litigous parties think twice before issuing the sort of absolute injunctions which have been growing in popularity even as their powers to hide from scrutiny have increased. "
Telegraph: Trafigura tops list of Twitter trending topics
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:28
Hmm. I wonder why?
Guy Fawkes’ blog: Guardian Gagged from Reporting Parliament
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 07:49
Guido: "Wonder if it is this question…"
Guardian: Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 07:47
"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. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament."
Out-law.com: Reading this story will restrict your freedom to blog
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 22:25
"Some bloggers have picked up the stories and may be within their rights to publish while national newspapers cannot. The court order imposing the reporting restrictions says that it only applies to people who know about the restriction."
New York Times: In Britain, Web Leaves Courts Playing Catch-Up
Monday, 30 March 2009, 19:10
"[The Barclays injunction against the Guardian] was only the latest example of British courts trying to preserve what it saw as litigants’ rights even in the face of an onslaught of information on the Internet. To some, this may be a final, futile effort."
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 00:27
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"A US academic is fighting to stop an English judge silencing her suspicions that a Saudi sheikh may have bank-rolled al-Qaeda … She is asking a New York judge to defend her right to freedom of speech by making Mr Justice Eady’s order unenforceable in
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 18:01
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"A British court ruling barring the naming of a minor royal involved in an alleged sex-and-drugs blackmail plot is being widely ignored on the internet, demonstrating the waning power of strict UK gagging orders in the information age."
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 18:00
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"The alleged royal blackmail case has exposed the difficulties the law faces in controlling the dissemination of information in a world where the media operates round the globe 24-7."
