“Doctors are being instructed by the General Medical Council never to sign a contract with their employer containing a gagging clause that would prevent them from revealing dodgy or substandard practice.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A health watchdog with responsibility for protecting NHS whistleblowers has asked at least six employees to sign confidentiality agreements that stop them from criticising the organisation publicly.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Prince Charles is to challenge a judicial ruling that threatens to expose the environmental impact of the private estate that provides his £17m-a-year income.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Iraq Inquiry has put back its report by at least six months due to a wrangle with the Government over the release of secret documents.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The need for a free press has been proved over and over again by the revelation of major public scandals which would not otherwise have come to light. The disclosure by the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian of dishonest expenses claims by members of parliament and the hacking of telephones and emails are two egregious examples.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 25th October 2011
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The aborted attempt by the Metropolitan police to force the Guardian to disclose confidential sources and other journalistic material raises important issues about press freedom and the way Operation Weeting is being conducted.”
The Guardian, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police has dropped its attempt to force the Guardian to reveal confidential sources for stories relating to the phone-hacking scandal.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“News Group Newspapers, former publisher of the defunct News of the World, is being sued for £100,000 by a prison warden’s brother who claims that a senior executive at the newspaper confirmed to police he was the source of leaked stories about the Soham killer Ian Huntley.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A businessman has been ordered never to improperly reveal confidential information belonging to a company where he used to be a director.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th April 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The disclosure of information by a person to the Serious Fraud Office (‘SFO’) pursuant to the latter’s statutory powers under the Criminal Justice Act 1987 did not give rise to any implied undertaking to any court not to use the documents other than for the purposes of a prosecution, actual or potential, or any undertaking to the court not to provide them to any person other than through one of the gateways under section 3 of the Act.”
WLR Daily, judgment reissued 14th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A mother who kept her baby a secret from her husband has been told she can not have the boy adopted after judges refused to back ‘a great lie’.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“There is a serious mismatch between the government’s aim to commercialise forensic science and the requirement of courts for openness, according to a top forensic expert.”
BBC News, 25th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Portrayals of real people in docudramas and novels have made millions for authors and film-makers. But what of their subjects?”
The Guardian, 23rd February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Desmond v Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police [2011] EWCA Civ 3; [2011] WLR (D) 1
“In considering whether the chief officer’s statutory obligation under s 115(7) of the Police Act 1997 to provide information to the Criminal Records Bureau on a request for an Enhanced Criminal Record Certificate (ECRC) had been carried out in a manner which, exceptionally where the relationship between claimant and defendant arose in a statutory context, gave rise to a breach of the common law duty of care towards the claimant, an important factor was the existence of other remedies such as a claim under art 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 13th January 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The right of ‘persons interested’ under section 15(1) of the Audit Commission Act 1998 to inspect the accounts to be audited and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts relating to them did not stretch, on the facts, to examination of commercially sensitive material which was protected by art 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 2nd November 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“In light of the Court of Appeal’s decision in Tchenguiz v Imerman; Imerman v Imerman [2010] EWCA Civ 908, all family lawyers are obliged to reconsider the advice given to clients in respect of improperly obtained documents.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st October 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A rape victim who gave her baby away 20 years ago because she could not be sure if the child was her husband’s cannot now find out the truth because of adoption rules, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge has explained his decision for refusing to ban a book revealing the identity of Top Gear’s The Stig.”
BBC News, 4th October 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A post-mortem examination report into the death of a man at the G20 protests last year has been withheld from authorities, it has emerged.”
BBC News, 8th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The BBC is facing a human rights battle with ‘The Stig’, the mystery stunt driver on Top Gear, in an effort to stop him disclosing his identity.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th August 2010
Soruce: www.telegraph.co.uk
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