Tag Archives: carter-ruck

Keep libel law out of politics

Padraig Reidy: Politicos should fight at the ballot box, not in the libel courts

BBC and Starsuckers Carter-Rucked?

Padraig Reidy: Did Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe fall prey to libel laws?

Twitter verusus Trafigura

Padraig Reidy sums up the Carter-Ruck injunction on the Guardian

Trafigura: MP Farrelly’s censored questions

The Trafigura “super-injunction” barred the press from reporting on parliamentary questions by Paul Farrelly MP about such draconian measures.

Carter-Ruck: courts mugged by new web reality

Padraig Reidy: The Trafigura Twitter revolt shows the law cannot keep up with the culture of the Internet

Carter-Ruck: Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented

Padraig Reidy: this injunction on reporting a parliamentary question is a threat to democracy itself