Summary
Journalism won this time - with the help of the internet - but law must be changed
THOSE politicians who argue that constitutional questions are at best a distraction from "real" issues had a fright this week. As a result of a High Court injunction obtained by a London firm of libel lawyers, the media was gagged from revealing that an MP had tabled a question in the House of Commons about a Swiss-based (but London- run) oil-trading firm called Trafigura and an alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast.See the full content of this document
Extract
Libel Lawyers' Gag Was Toxic for Democracy
Had the ban remained, your right to know what parliament is discussing would have been curtailed. Fortunately, an insurgency on the internet, led by rank-and-file bloggers and Twitterers, who were unwilling to be silenced on the matter, reduced the gagging order to a farce.
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