Privacy law to stop rise in gagging orders by judges
Britain could get its first ever privacy law to stop judges creating one by stealth through the courts, a justice minister said.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Lord McNally suggested that the right to privacy could be enshrined in law after a number of celebrities were awarded so-called “super-injunctions” to gag the press.
But campaigners for freedom of speech will fear that any new privacy law could frustrate investigations by journalists that are clearly in the public interest, such as The Daily Telegraph’s inquiry last year into MPs’ expenses.
Lord McNally, a Liberal Democrat minister in the Ministry of Justice, was speaking after a spate of gagging orders on the press — which have been criticised in some cases for protecting the wealthy — were ordered by the courts.
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Wow, seems like the minister has been speaking to our President Zuma! This is exactly what the ANC government is trying to do here, muzzle the media so they can no longer expose their theft and corruption.
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