The industry in moral espionage has moved well beyond elite transgressions into the tragic moments of ordinary members of the public. It has brought private detectives firmly into the mainstream of muck, and out of the shadows. It has merged with, and to some extent created, politicians’ need for ‘spin’, for personal image management and careful policy dissemination. It has linked in with other policing agencies, so moving us nearer the complete ‘surveillance society’. Read the rest of this entry »
Media, policing and politics: the business of “holding others to account”, Part 2 – Colin Sumner
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Categories : Journalism, Media
Conditional Fee Agreements: how wrong can Governments get them? – Alastair Brett
14 03 2012
Many lawyers had hoped that the days of ill-thought-out legal reform and bad legislation – a favourite pastime of the last Government – were long since gone. But the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill suggests otherwise, particularly when it comes to libel actions, access to justice and conditional fee agreements. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Libel
