Carter-Ruck Solicitors vs. Freedom of the Press

EDIT: Vic­tory. Orig­i­nal post follows:

In the unlikely event that you haven’t already heard this, con­sid­er­ing the *crosses self* blo­gos­phere and Twit­ter are on fire with it:

The Guardian news­pa­per has been blocked from report­ing on a ques­tion being put to the House of Com­mons tomor­row, by Lon­don solic­i­tors Carter-Ruck rep­re­sent­ing their client Trafigura. This explic­itly goes against the long-established right of the media to report on the House of Com­mons, and thus on our right to know what our elected rep­re­sen­ta­tives are doing on our behalf. It is a wor­ry­ingly suc­cess­ful attack on the free­dom of the press, and nat­u­rally the inter­net has taken it upon itself to get the word out, at the expense of Carter-Ruck’s rep­u­ta­tion if nec­es­sary. (Trafigura’s rep­u­ta­tion is prob­a­bly dead already.)

The ques­tion that the Guardian is for­bid­den from report­ing on is believed to be “ques­tion for writ­ten answer” num­ber 61 on this list. The Minton Report referred to in this ques­tion can be found here, on Wik­ileaks.

More cov­er­age by: The Guardian, Guido Fawkes, Next Left, The Spec­ta­tor, The Third Estate, Iain Dale, Boing Boing, The Reg­is­ter

Twit­ter trend­ing top­ics: #Carter­Ruck, Carter-Ruck, Trafigura, Guardian

2 thoughts on “Carter-Ruck Solicitors vs. Freedom of the Press

  1. I’ve just done so, and I encour­age oth­ers to do the same!

    If any­one would like to base their let­ter on mine rather than the 38 Degrees default (not that there’s any­thing wrong with it, but the let­ters will be less effec­tive if they’re all the same) you can find it here.

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