Posts Tagged ‘Guardian’

Trafigura: Minton report revealed

October 17th, 2009

Commodities firm Trafigura and solicitors Carter-Ruck have given up attempts to conceal a report on the company’s activities in the Ivory Coast.You can read the Minton Report here

Carter-Ruck backs down on Guardian parliamentary reporting

October 13th, 2009

royal courtsIndex on Censorship has learned that law firm Carter-Ruck has backed down in an attempt to stop media from reporting on a parliamentary question concerning a previous injunction. The gag had caused outrage on the Internet, with many Twitter users defying the injunction to post information on the case.

Update: Read the letter Index on Censorship sent to the courts in support of the Guardian here

Press barred from reporting parliamentary question

October 13th, 2009

Solicitors Carter-Ruck have successfully barred the Guardian newspaper from reporting a parliamentary question about an earlier injunction on reporting about a client’s activities. The Guardian has pledged to fight the injunction, with editor Alan Rusbridger saying: “The media laws in this country increasingly place newspapers in a Kafkaesque world in which we cannot tell the public anything about information which is being suppressed, nor the proceedings which suppress it. It is doubly menacing when those restraints include the reporting of parliament itself.”

Zuma accepts damages from Guardian

July 31st, 2009

The Guardian has published an apology and has settled out of court for an undisclosed amount with the South African President. The paper had described president Zuma in an article as a rapist. President Zuma, although brought to court for both rape and corruption was not convicted as guilty. Read more here

Senior News of the World reporter accused in phone hack scandal

July 14th, 2009

WestminsterThe Culture, Media and Sports Committee has heard evidence on the tabloid voicemail hacking scandal. Padraig Reidy reports
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The right to protest: Technology turns the camera on surveillance state

May 20th, 2009

paul_lewis_140x140In the first of a series of articles on protest and free speech, Guardian reporter Paul Lewis assesses the fallout from the death of Ian Tomlinson
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PAST EVENT: Guardian Hay Festival: The Index on Censorship Lecture with Geoffrey Robertson QC

May 11th, 2009

Index on Censorship is proud to host The Index Lecture at this years Guardian Hay Festival on Sunday 24 May. Index on Censorhip editor Jo Glanville will chair the event and human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC is set to discuss and explore the issue of free speech. The event will be held in the Oxfam tent at 8.30 pm. To book tickets and find out more about the festival please click here

Censorship is bad for business

March 20th, 2009

barclays_guardianAttempts by Barclays to shut down discussion of its practices have backfired and exposed the attitudes that contributed to the financial crisis, writes Padraig Reidy
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