by Paul M | Sep 16, 2016 | Cases, Comment
Newspaper reports of a judgment released this week have concentrated on the use, by the judge, of an emoji – probably a first in the Senior Courts. But the judgment is far more interesting for the way the judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, has written it so that...
by Sarah P | Sep 12, 2016 | Comment
We published and sent our complaint about the Daily Mail’s account of the President’s Views on September 6th and posted here. We are grateful for the speedy response of Ms Kingsley, Readers’ Editor of Associated Newspapers Limited. It was received via...
by Sarah P | Sep 6, 2016 | Comment
In August 2016 I was lucky enough to visit the Newseum in Washington DC where I took the picture above. Pictures and inspiration quotes are all very well but how do they translate into real life? Luckily for me, I live in a society where our tabloid press provides...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 5, 2016 | Comment, Transparency News
In July last year, we wrote a post about developments since the Leveson report (published in 2012). At that time, we had understood that some legal changes were due in November, but in fact the relevant sections (of the Crime and Courts Act 2013) have not yet taken...
by Sarah P | Aug 31, 2016 | Comment
This is a post by Sarah Phillimore and represents her views about the Daily Mail which she hopes, but cannot assume, are shared by other members of the Transparency Project. It is always illuminating to run things through the Daily Mail translator. It...
by Paul M | Aug 25, 2016 | Comment
In February 2016, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and the Judicial Executive Board issued a consultation entitled “Reforming the courts’ approach to McKenzie Friends”. The consultation set out a number of proposals which had been made by a working...
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