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by Contribsed | October 13, 2009 at 06:03 am
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Britain’s most notorious libel lawyers have succeeded in banning a top UK newspaper from reporting a question both they and the government find extremely embarrassing. But here The-Latest prints the question and fearlessly exposes the truth about which the public have a right to know.
The matter has huge constitutional significance because The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds that appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
Investigative reporter David Leigh, whose story uncovering tax avoidance and the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast by Trafigura, a major oil trading company sparked the controversy, said: “Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.”
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at 07:10 on October 13th, 2009
I am glad it was the law that was used and not the power of parliament it self. The law can be placed under attack and of course it will be 1688 Bill of rights can be seen in different lights.
I read an article that claimed that the government banned the Guardian from publishing this is not so, it was the lawyer involved. This does not mean that other newspapers can not print the facts and it not really a freedom of speech issue that has been imposed by the government.
However there is a smell of many dead rats coming from members of the British Parliament and I expect the House of Lords.