11 April 2003 – The High Court had ruled that Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas had the right to enter into an exclusive, commercial contract with a media company, and to expect that its terms would not be breached. In … Continue reading
5 March 2003 – The PressWise Trust, represented by Chairman Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC and Director Mike Jempson, gave evidence before the Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into privacy and media intrusion on Tuesday, 4 March. The committee … Continue reading
6 November 2002 – What need of a police force? What need of a judicial system? The tabloid press seems to be doing the job very well. Rather better, in fact, if the collapse of the Burrell case is any … Continue reading
Bulletin No 63, 2 May 2002 This is the full text of the last in the 2002 Reith Lecture series, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1 May by Onora O’Neill, philosopher and principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. 1. Testing … Continue reading
4 December 2001 – We all make mistakes, and the Manchester Evening News made a big one in partially identifying the location of the Bulger killers. The existence of the injunction against identification was well known, and the dangers of … Continue reading