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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Cost of Met’s journalism investigations rises £4m in seven months to more than £40m
The Metropolitan Police has now spent more than £40m on investigations into journalism, figures obtained by Press Gazette show. The…
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Former DPP calls for new law to protect public interest journalism from prosecution
Former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Keir Starmer has called for a new law to protect journalists from being prosecuted…
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Elveden defence lawyer: A ‘more cautious press’ unable to uncover public sector wrongdoing would be a ‘real tragedy’
Mark Abbott, a criminal defence lawyer and partner at Blaser Mills law firm, acted as former Sun managing editor Graham…
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Reporter’s three-year ordeal ‘for writing story about a fox’
The Sun's online news editor Vince Soodin has has condemned the Met Police for turning Operation Elveden into "a probe…
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CPS guidance over misconduct in public office: Payments for ‘tittle tattle’ unlikely to result in prosecution
The Crown Prosecution Service has indicated that journalists are unlikely to face prosecution for misconduct in public office in future…
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CPS dubbed ‘Crown Persecution Service’ as former DPP Ken Macdonald says journalist trials were ‘error’
A former Director of Public Prosections has acknowledged that the Crown Prosecution Service made an "error" in pursuing some Operation…
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CPS presses ahead with retrial of prison officer whose newspaper leak conviction was overturned last week
The Crown Prosecution Service is to press ahead with a retrial of a prison officer whose conviction on a charge…
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