An Old Bailey judge told a jury today they had to decide if a journalist paying a civil servant for information was in the public interest or a commercially driven “corrupt relationship,” noting that: “the fact that a journalist thought a story was in the public interest is not a defence to this charge.” Continue reading
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Month: November 2014 (Page 3 of 8)
The “Plebgate” libel trial began on Monday 17 November 2014 before Mr Justice Mitting in Court 13 at the Royal Courts of Justice. We had a widely read case preview last week. Continue reading
The departure of Paul Vickers from Trinity Mirror is an important development for the press industry, though characteristically the big newspaper groups have chosen not to share the implications with their readers. Continue reading
Only the introduction of the 2010 Bribery Act made it “quite clear” to Sun journalists that they should not pay cash to public officials, The Sun Six trial heard yesterday. Continue reading
Sun reporter Jamie Pyatt picked up stories from sources other than a Surrey police officer who was receiving cash payments from the paper, he told The Sun corruption trial today. Continue reading
An assault on the Yorkshire Ripper in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital would have become public knowledge regardless of a leak to The Sun, reporter Jamie Pyatt told a court yesterday. Continue reading
On 28 October 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the numerous convictions of Mr. Stephen Peter Gough – better known as “the naked rambler” – for insisting on appearing naked in public at all times, did not violate Mr. Gough’s freedom of expression. Continue reading
A Sun journalist was behaving responsibly when he paid a police officer for internal police witness statements and photographs, he told The Sun Six trial at Kingston Crown Court today. Continue reading
A week ago today, BBC finally aired the long awaited Panorama exposure of Sun on Sunday reporter Mazher Mahmood after a battle between lawyers from both camps at the High Court before the judge eventually ruling against Mahmood’s application for injunction to halt the programme. Continue reading
A Sun reporter admitted yesterday that a string of stories about ongoing police investigations, celebrities and high-profile murderers and rapists published in Britain’s best-selling paper had been supplied by public officials for money. Continue reading
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