Matthew Offord made this intervention to the debate on superinjunctions yesterday in Parliament :-
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Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon) (Con): I think that we all agree in the House that the law should be used to protect the vulnerable and not to hide the misdemeanours of those with large cheque books, but does my right
hon. and learned Friend agree that we have found ourselves in this situation because of the behaviour of some of the newspaper press? Super-injunctions have emerged because of the ineffectual and impotent way in which the Press Complaints Commission works, but we can regulate that and give ourselves greater protection from abuse.
The Attorney-General: Looking at the matters that have been complained of recently, it seems to me fairly noteworthy that the press appear generally to observe the terms of injunctions against them. Indeed, from that point of view the injunction system appears to be quite effective; it is in other respects, such as the blogosphere and Twitter, that the difficulty emerges. What is absolutely clear is that breaches of court orders should not take place.
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Could it be a case oif sour grapes with the PCC following them chucking out his complaint against the Hendon Times? Come on boys, learn to take it on the chin & pucker up ! Interesting to read the Attorney Generals reply, which translates to "Matthew, stop talking nonsense".
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Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon) (Con): I think that we all agree in the House that the law should be used to protect the vulnerable and not to hide the misdemeanours of those with large cheque books, but does my right
hon. and learned Friend agree that we have found ourselves in this situation because of the behaviour of some of the newspaper press? Super-injunctions have emerged because of the ineffectual and impotent way in which the Press Complaints Commission works, but we can regulate that and give ourselves greater protection from abuse.
The Attorney-General: Looking at the matters that have been complained of recently, it seems to me fairly noteworthy that the press appear generally to observe the terms of injunctions against them. Indeed, from that point of view the injunction system appears to be quite effective; it is in other respects, such as the blogosphere and Twitter, that the difficulty emerges. What is absolutely clear is that breaches of court orders should not take place.
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Could it be a case oif sour grapes with the PCC following them chucking out his complaint against the Hendon Times? Come on boys, learn to take it on the chin & pucker up ! Interesting to read the Attorney Generals reply, which translates to "Matthew, stop talking nonsense".
It may be sour grapes on his part, but I think 'Manuel the Soup Waiter' has a point.
ReplyDeleteWe should be quite happy in many ways that we all knew about Giggs, but that the tabloids have not been able to print page after page about him, to increase their circulations.
And it's a bit rich the tabloids saying "Ah, but what about the Trafigura case of dumping (and killing people) in Ivory Coast?" when they were't interested at the time, because the Trafigura directors didn't play in the Premier League or have big tits.