FOI tribunal throws out £14k costs claim against journalist Barnie Choudhury
Reporter faced cost claim after threatening Judicial Appointments Committee with contempt of court.
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Judges body hits journalist with £14k costs bill for pursuing FOI request
Barnie Choudhury wrote 23 articles in his campaign against judicial secrecy.
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Why UK’s contempt of court laws need reform for digital age
Disorder after the Southport stabbings last summer has been called an “indirect result of contempt of court laws”.
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Southport knife attack misinformation due to police PR secrecy say crime journalists
College of Policing has written to Attorney General seeking changes to PR policies.
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UK media facing ‘extreme legal hurdles’, top lawyer warns
Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC praises recent investigations by the FT, Sunday Times and Evening Standard.
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Secret arrests could mean publishers don’t know they are in contempt of court
Law Commission considers moving point at which criminal proceedings are ‘active’ to charge rather than arrest.
By New Yorker defies contempt risk to publish Lucy Letby story in UK print edition
The case may set up a showdown between England’s justice system and the magazine.
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New Yorker latest to be faced with ‘incredibly complex’ task of reporting Lucy Letby case
Witnesses in the case were unusually given anonymity without reasons of national security or a risk to life.
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