Libel reform: Carter-Ruck defends defamation rules
Libel lawyers Carter-Ruck have responded to English PEN and Index on Censorship’s libel reform report. By Padraig Reidy
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MPs and campaigners call for ban on super injunctions
Index on Censorship and English PEN today welcomed MPs’ robust response in this afternoon’s adjournment debate to law firm Carter-Ruck’s challenge to Parliamentary reporting, and called on them to strengthen the public’s right to information by banning the use of so-called “super injunctions” except in extreme circumstances.
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The ultimate assault on free speech
Law firm Carter-Ruck’s super-injunction to attempt to stop the reporting of a question on the Trafigura affair in Parliament has galvanised MPs and other bodies to take up the fight for freedom of expression. John Kampfner reports
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Trafigura: Minton report revealed
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