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John Hemming’s extraordinary defence

September 1, 2011

John Hemming MP wrote an extraordinary article in the Huffington Post last week, defending his actions in the Vicky Haigh case. First I want to address one of the legal points he raises in the piece. This one’s on American constitutional law. He says: In the USA it would be clearly unconstitutional to apply to jail [...]

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John Hemming MP, Vicky Haigh, and her supporters

August 25, 2011

In April I wrote about John Hemming’s use of Parliamentary privilege to name a woman involved in a family law dispute with a local authority. I concluded: since this appears to be a family case involving a local authority, it’s reasonable to suspect it’s a child care case in which section 1(1) of the Children Act [...]

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The select committee, the Murdochs and Brooks

July 19, 2011

I’m not sure what purpose will be served by today’s grilling of Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks (whose portrait still hangs at the National Portrait Gallery, I found on Sunday) by the Culture, Media and Sport select committee. I have to admit I suspect MPs of wanting to be seen to bear down [...]

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News Corp withdraws its undertakings: but why?

July 11, 2011

This changes everything. As Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in the House in his statement this afternoon, News Corporation has withdrawn its proposed “undertakings in lieu” in relation to BSkyB. These were its undertakings, for instance “spinning off” Sky News to make it independent, and protect it from News Corp dominance. Since it was that [...]

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Can the NewsCorp-BSkyB deal be stopped?

July 6, 2011

A lot of people must be wondering this, given recent allegations and revelations about phone hacking by the News of the World. So can the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt now block the planned merger of News Corporation and BSkyB? He has already said he is minded to allow it, subject to certain undertakings relating in [...]

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Decision Time on Radio 4

June 16, 2011

I took part in Decision Time on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast last night, in a discussion about the European Court of Human Rights – specifically whether the UK could denounce the European Convention on Human Rights, or otherwise reduce the Court’s power, in the light of the controversy over prisoners’ votes. Nick Robinson chairs [...]

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Hemming does his worst

May 23, 2011

As I think readers will surely know by now, John Hemming MP used Parliamentary privilege today to name the footballer whose anonymity is protected in this privacy case by an injunction, which the High Court decided earlier today to maintain in force. Since then, first Sky News and now the BBC have named the footballer [...]

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John Hemming, sub judice and the public interest: “no abuse of parliamentary procedure”?

April 27, 2011

Yesterday afternoon there was speculation that John Hemming MP was planning to “break a superinjunction” in the House under cover of Parliamentary privilege. Then, not long after 5 o’clock, John Hemming made a point of order in the Commons [update: hyperlink removed - see comment 12 below], naming a woman, and a local authority, who [...]

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ZAM v CFW & TFW: has John Hemming changed his mind?

April 20, 2011

I posted recently about last month’s High Court judgment in this case, in which Mr Justice Tugendhat granted an injunction to stop allegations which were not even defended as true, and which Tugendhat J thought could involve an attempt at blackmail. The judge also granted anonymity to the claimant, ZAM. Here’s what John Hemming MP [...]

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John Hemming MP: is the detail “a little bit more complex”?

March 28, 2011

Following my post last week about John Hemming MP, and the interesting exchange with him in comments over the last few days, I’m interested to see that on his own blog he’s posted videos of his speech to a meeting of the Freedom Association last Monday about his claims that courts are preventing people from [...]

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