Monthly Archives: April 2012
Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions publishes recommendations: new media must be accountable to the law
On 27 March 2012 the parliamentary Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions published its report. The Committee was asked to consider how best to strike a balance between rights to privacy and freedom of expression in the wake of the furore over so-called “super injunctions”. The courts, the Committee concluded, were now getting the balance about right. The problem still was that information protected by an injunction was readily being published elsewhere, in particular, online. Continue reading
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