While paying lip service to the importance of public access to court proceedings and its corollary of unfettered media reporting, a trawl through common law jurisdictions reveals that judges and legislators have been responsible for substantial inroads into the ideal of open justice. Outside of the US, judges and legislators have long subordinated media freedom to report and comment upon matters relating to the administration of justice in order to safeguard the fairness of individual proceedings, public confidence in the administration of justice more generally or even individual privacy...
While paying lip service to the importance of public access to court proceedings and its corollary of unfettered media reporting, a trawl through comm...
Located within wider debates about security versus liberty in our post 9/11 world, the book analyses the new landscape of UK counter terrorism powers and offences and focuses upon the deleterious consequences of the so-called war on terror on freedom of political expression and association. Questioning the compatibility of recent speech-limiting measures with liberalism s established commitment to free speech and international human rights norms, the book takes a critical look at new powers to proscribe extremist political parties, possession offences and other criminal controls (eg....
Located within wider debates about security versus liberty in our post 9/11 world, the book analyses the new landscape of UK counter terrorism powe...
