Sun reporter Anthony France faces two-week trial after pleading not guilty to charge of paying police officer for stories
A Sun crime reporter from Watford has denied a charge over the alleged payment of a police officer for story…
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RIPA report shocks industry, but leaves journalists targeted by police in the dark
The revelation today that 19 police forces have used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to find journalistic sources has…
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Villains of the year: Boris, Brand, Met Police and Newcastle United make Press Gazette’s top ten
With police forces using anti-terror laws to find journalistic sources, tens of journalists facing trial and PRs seemingly trying harder…
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Judge ‘extremely surprised’ at police reluctance to let media name and shame men who sexually exploited girl
The judge who decided that men being made subject to injunctions banning them from having contact with a girl they…
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Nick Clegg tells Home Office: ‘Police should have to seek a sign off from the judge before they go after journalists’
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told Theresa May police must be forced to seek judicial approval before grabbing journalists’…
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The Leveson effect: Sharp increase in police media leak investigations, relations with journalists at ‘all-time low’
HMIC figures show 98 press leak investigations in nine months during the Leveson Inquiry Compares to 302 in five years…
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Cleveland Police believed to have seized telecoms data to find media source
Cleveland Police blanked FoI on RIPA use against journalists Force did provide internal emails discussing IOCCO's RIPA inquiry Press Gazette…
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ACPO scuppered Press Gazette FoI requests on police use of RIPA by issuing blanket guidance
ACPO told forces in blanket guidance they should use 'national security' excuse to refuse Press Gazette FoIs ACPO also told…
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