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  • Press regulation Royal Charter, final draft: my detailed comments on the new provisions

    Carl Gardner
    October 15, 2013

    I’ve spent some time looking at the final draft of the Royal Charter – so I want to share my thoughts with you. If you click the bottom left of the viewer, you’ll see in fullscreen view, highlighted, the key […]

    Tags: constitution, freedom of expression, government, media law, northern ireland, scotland
  • R (Miranda) v Home Secretary: witness statement of Detective Supt. Caroline Goode

    Carl Gardner
    October 2, 2013

    A few weeks ago I published the witness statement of Oliver Robbins served on behalf of the Home Secretary in the Miranda case. That statement referred (at para. 32) to a further statement to be served by the police, […]

    Tags: injunctions, judicial review, media law, terrorism
  • Miranda v Home Secretary: today’s hearing and order

    Carl Gardner
    August 22, 2013

    Today’s hearing at the High Court before Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Kenneth Parker was interesting, and not just because of the order they made. But let me turn to that order first.

    The court has ordered that until a […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, government, injunctions, media law, police, terrorism
  • Did the Guardian comply with an “official direction” under the Official Secrets Act?

    Carl Gardner
    August 21, 2013

    Alan Rusbridger revealed in a piece first published on the Guardian website at half past ten on Monday evening how GCHQ security experts […]

    Tags: government, media law, official secrets, terrorism
  • Could David Miranda be a “terrorist”?

    Carl Gardner
    August 20, 2013

    There’s understandably been a great deal of reaction to the nine-hour detention at Heathrow airport of David Miranda, who was travelling as part of his work with Guardian journalists covering Edward Snowden’s disclosures, and whose laptop and memory stick […]

    Tags: media law, national security, official secrets, parliament, terrorism
  • The press regulation jigsaw’s missing piece: writers

    Carl Gardner
    March 28, 2013

    In Monday’s Lords debate about the new press regulation provisions inserted into the Crime and Courts Bill, one line stands out above all. Discussing an amendment about the vicarious liability of publishers, justice minister Lord McNally said (column 876):

    the […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, legislation, media law, parliament
  • Press regulation: the international aspect

    Carl Gardner
    March 26, 2013

    An exchange in last night’s Lords debate on the new press regulation clauses in the Crime and Courts Bill revealed a little-noticed – and no doubt to some, astonishing – aspect of the proposed system: it covers foreign publishers.

    Lord […]

    Tags: eu law, freedom of expression, human rights, international, legislation, media law, parliament
  • Why press regulation should cover blogs

    Carl Gardner
    March 24, 2013

    In my last post, I said I was worried that the press self-regulation scheme agreed by the main political parties (and to be underpinned by a Royal Charter and two pieces of legislation) would not offer bloggers what it offers […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, media law
  • The Leveson Royal Charter deal

    Carl Gardner
    March 23, 2013

    Just before Lord Justice Leveson reported in November, I wrote in support of statutory press regulation:

    Only legislation can require newspapers to submit even to their own enforcement of their own code …

    What statute – and no other arrangement – […]

    Tags: constitution, freedom of expression, government, media law, parliament, private life
  • Craig Murray’s Newsnight outburst: the law on anonymity should be tightened

    Carl Gardner
    August 21, 2012

    Last night on the BBC’s Newsnight, Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, named one of the women whose evidence has led Swedish prosecutors to seek the extradition of Julian Assange.

    I agree with those who think this was […]

    Tags: attorney general, crime, eu law, freedom of expression, legislation, media law, private life
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