On 9 December 2016, the Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Vos, granted a contra mundum injunction in the case of A & B v Persons Unknown. The purpose of the injunction was to protect the new identities of two boys who were convicted of a “sadistic attack” in Edlington, near Doncaster in 2009 when they were 10 and 11. They have now been given life-long anonymity. Continue reading
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An opinion poll carried out by YouGov for IMPRESS [pdf] shows overwhelming public support for independent regulation of the press, with a majority favouring compulsory membership of an independent regulator. There is negligible public trust in a regulator set up by newspaper publishers. Continue reading
In the past few months, Canadians have focused, often in disbelief, on the spectacle that is the 2016 United States Presidential Election. One controversy revolved around a New York Times article entitled “Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately.” Continue reading
In Re: W (A child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1140 the Court of Appeal considered a case in which a Family Court judgment was severely critical of two witnesses and the applicant local authority. In an oral “bullet point” judgment at the end of the hearing, the Judge found that the witnesses, a social worker (‘SW’) and a police officer (‘PO’), had improperly conspired to prove certain allegations regardless of the truth, or professional guidelines. Continue reading
The purpose of this update is to correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, to explain and comment on published Judgments of family cases and to highlight other transparency news. Continue reading
In the case of Reid v Dukic [2016] ACTSC 344, a man who posted a series of Facebook posts defaming the chief executive of a Canberra football organisation has been ordered to pay her damages of $180,000. Continue reading
The Government has launched a public consultation on ‘The Leveson Inquiry and its Implementation’. You might think that when they consult in this way it must be a thorny issue with strong arguments on both sides, but in this case you would be wrong, because one side has no arguments at all. Continue reading
The Supreme Court will, today, sit in an unprecedented panel of 11, to hear the most important constitutional case for many years, the so called “Article 50 Brexit” case. This has generated huge media coverage and a commendable effort by the Court to open its processes and communicate with the public. Continue reading
The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem for the site’s users, and for the company itself. Continue reading
Academics like to talk of ‘critical junctures’: moments of great instability when different pressures and crises come together to produce the possibility of dramatic change. Continue reading
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