Iain Dale has a piece today on the Court of Appeal Ruling this week upholding the right of Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt to ban publication of certain passages in a book entitled Travels with Loreena McKennitt: My Life as a Friend, covering personal and sexual relationships. Iain concludes that:
This really does seem like a landmark judgement, but one which discriminates unfairly in favour of the rich and famous.
I commented that it was hardly a problem, as you could just move to Tasmania to publish. Which was a reference to Peter Wright. Peter who?
1988: Government loses Spycatcher battle The British Government has lost its long-running battle to stop the publication of the controversial book Spycatcher, written by a former secret service agent. The Law Lords ruled the media can publish extracts from former MI5 officer Peter Wright's memoirs, because any damage to national security has already been done by its publication abroad.
With the ruling, injunctions imposed against The Observer, The Guardian and The Sunday Times have been lifted. Outside the court Donald Trelford, editor of The Observer celebrated: "At long last our democratic system has reached the obvious conclusion that these were genuine matters of public importance that the public should be allowed to know about."
Really? I shouldn’t have thought it had anything whatever to do with freedom of the press but about “too late – the horse has bolted”. Oh and Peter Wright died a millionnaire.
This really does seem like a landmark judgement, but one which discriminates unfairly in favour of the rich and famous.
I commented that it was hardly a problem, as you could just move to Tasmania to publish. Which was a reference to Peter Wright. Peter who?
1988: Government loses Spycatcher battle The British Government has lost its long-running battle to stop the publication of the controversial book Spycatcher, written by a former secret service agent. The Law Lords ruled the media can publish extracts from former MI5 officer Peter Wright's memoirs, because any damage to national security has already been done by its publication abroad.
With the ruling, injunctions imposed against The Observer, The Guardian and The Sunday Times have been lifted. Outside the court Donald Trelford, editor of The Observer celebrated: "At long last our democratic system has reached the obvious conclusion that these were genuine matters of public importance that the public should be allowed to know about."
Really? I shouldn’t have thought it had anything whatever to do with freedom of the press but about “too late – the horse has bolted”. Oh and Peter Wright died a millionnaire.
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