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  • NightJack: the Times should be ashamed

    Carl Gardner
    June 17, 2009

    I admire and respect the professional mainstream press; but the behaviour of the Times in “outing” the Orwell Prize winning blogger NightJack has dented that respect considerably. Here’s Eady J’s judgment, refusing the injunction the blogger sought.

    Tags: blogging, breach of confidence, freedom of expression, media law, newspapers
  • The press, family courts – and bloggers

    Carl Gardner
    May 1, 2009

    The family courts opened their doors to the press this week, of course – well, sort of. Afua Hirsch wrote the other day about what she couldn’t report, and Natasha Phillips thought the change was much ado […]

    Tags: blawging, family, media law
  • Paul Dacre’s laughable attack on Eady J

    Carl Gardner
    November 10, 2008

    I almost almost choked on my credit crunch this morning (Sainsbury’s “Basics” breakfast wheat biscuits) as I listened to quotes from Paul Dacre’s lecture to the Society of Editors Conference, in which he attacks Eady J personally for his […]

    Tags: freedom of expression, human rights, media law, private life
  • Missing Madeleine McCann

    Carl Gardner
    May 17, 2007

    I very much agree with Iain Dale about the media coverage of the “suspect” Robert Murat and indeed of the Russian man who’s now in the spotlight. I really wish the BBC and other media would think again before […]

    Tags: crime, media law
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