I appeared on AlJazeera’s Inside Story on Tuesday, to discuss “superinjunctions” – well, anonymous injunctions in fact – with Martin Bentham of the Standard and Stephen Murdoch of Cambridge University. The programme’s now available on the web.
Shiulie Ghosh introduces me as editor of this website – which I suppose I am. I’m also the chairman, chief executive and finance director, mind, and would be general counsel too if I were practising these days. I blink far too much and gesticulate wildly, but if you can bear that, it might be worth watching.
Carl Gardner2011-05-25T19:48:53+00:00
Possibly OT, but any idea why the ‘Ministry of Truth’ has disappeared? Might just be completely co-incidental techie error but emails too are being returned as ‘550 550 No Such User Here”‘.
Or is there anything more sinister going on? Assuming, of course, that there is not something in the legal process that prevents us from being told. 🙂
As a law student I’d be interested to know whether or not the level of confusion and disinformation in this debate is typical of mainstream reporting of legal issues?
Anywho, I appreciate your being a (lamentably) rare voice of sanity and reason in this affair. Thanks also to Mike, David and yourself for Without Prejudice.
Pls ignore comment 1. Site has resurrected itself
Shiulie Ghosh mentioned “the public’s right to know”. I don’t think there is one in English law, is there?
(generally speaking, I mean – I’m aware of ‘rights to know’ in relation to specific kinds of information held by public authorities.)
ISTM this is part of the problem, in that there seems to be a sense of ‘entitlement’, “we ought to know or be able to find out whatever we want”, not just that “we ought to be free to talk about what we want”.