Shane Richmond: Lord Falconer’s contempt of court plan won’t work

Posted on 20 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"So not only would every news organisation have to remove material from their servers, so would every search engine and news aggregator. And what about blogs, messageboards and social networking sites? What about sites that are not hosted in this country?

BBC News: Net news ‘threatens court cases’

Posted on 20 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Articles relating to high-profile court cases should be removed from online news archives, the former Lord Chancellor has told the BBC."

Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Legislation may include Non-disclosure right

Posted on 23 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin says he wants to formalise the right of journalists to refuse to reveal their sources by incorporating it in legislation."

AP: Lawyers for Convicted Killer Want ‘Houston Chronicle’ to Reveal Name of Web Poster

Posted on 18 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Attorneys for a former high school football coach convicted in the shooting death of his pregnant wife wants the Houston Chronicle to identify a reader who posted a comment about the case on the newspaper's Web site."

Wired: Threat Level: Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify

Posted on 17 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

A 13-year-old girl commits suicide after cyberbullying by two adults. A newspaper choses not to name the adults, but bloggers do ...

BBC News: The Editors: Legal and moral questions

Posted on 31 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

BBC Scotland's Mark Coyle on the ethical dilemna about linking to illegal content, such as the camera phone footage taken during a case at the High Court in Glasgow.

Comment is free: Open door

Posted on 3 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Guardian readers' editor Siobhain Butterworth on why comments are closed on some Cif posts.

MediaGuardian.co.uk: Will Congress shield the media?

Posted on 13 August, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Indeed, US reporters might fare better in Britain. Both the Contempt of Court Act and European rights laws acknowledge the right to protect sources."

New York Times: British Press Assails Curbs on Reporting

Posted on 9 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Citizen journalism is challenging Britain's court reporting restrictions: "Because many bystanders have sent images on to other people, lawyers said, it is harder to argue that a media organization should not be allowed to publish them."

BBC News: Angelika contempt case to proceed

Posted on 5 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Contempt of court action will be taken later this year against [the Mail on Sunday] over a story it ran [in February]. ... Editor Christopher Williams and Allan Caldwell, the freelance reporter who wrote the story, also face charges."

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