In his excellent book, Nick Davies explains what he means by “Flat Earth news”: A story appears to be true. It is widely accepted as true. It becomes a heresy to suggest that it is not true - even if [...]
I must write about something other than John Hemming MP and his causes soon, or else I'll become an obsessed man, and start suing everyone, or something. But before leaving the subject, I must pick up on something written by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last week John Hemming MP secured a debate in Westminster Hall about the role of Parliament in dealing with all grievances and the importance of freedom of communication between constituents and Members. Here's the debate in Hansard, and here's the [...]
This evening the Attorney General Dominic Grieve has been speaking at City University on the subject "Contempt - a balancing act". Here's the draft text of his speech - it differed only slightly in delivery. In the document viewer below [...]