The media should be informed before gagging orders are brought against them, a report by top judges says.
The high court has partially lifted the gagging order brought by Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, after details of his alleged extra-marital affair were made public in the House of Lords.
The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has ruled out introducing a new privacy law to deal with issues around superinjunctions and gagging orders, following a meeting with the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, on Thursday - The Guardian reports.
As the pressure mounts for the contents of Sir Fred Goodwin's "super-injunction" to be revealed, a peer has used Parliamentary rules to reveal more details in the House of Commons.
US President Barack Obama yesterday introduced sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad and six of his deputies as the regime continued to impose oppressive measures against its own people. The announcement came a day before President Obama is due to make a major policy speech on the recent developments in the Middle East and northern Africa. The sanctions are largely symbolic as Assad has few assets in the US and is unlikely ever to visit the country but come as a reinforcement of pre-ex...
The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke came under sustained criticism on Wednesday evening after suggesting there was a distinction between "serious rape" and other forms of the crime.
Ed Miliband, the labour leader, has called for Ken Clarke to resign over comments made in a radio interview.
Rape, while not a pleasant topic for civilised society to talk about, is all over the news this week.
Rapists who plead guilty could see their jail sentences halved under new Government proposals, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke confirmed in the Commons yesterday.
Another Premier League football player has taken out an injunction to keep details of an affair from being reported.
Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, has indicated that a new privacy law could be introduced in the light of the Imogen Thomas injunction.
A UK parliament report has questioned whether Osama bin Laden’s death was legal under international law.
IBTimes summarises the report here…
A UK parliament report has questioned whether Osama bin Laden’s death was legal under international law.
Over 100 days in 1994, after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana the 6th April 1994, Rwanda's Hutu majority led by the government carried out the organized slaughter of the country's Tutsi minority and any Hutus who sympathized with them, killing an estimated 800 000 people in the space of three months. In July of the same year, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) finally managed to gain hold of the country and the killings started to decrease.
The former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas subject to a gagging order by a Premiership footballer has been accused of blackmailing the well known star.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first ever permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to promote the rule of law and ensure that the gravest international crimes do not go unpunished and is complementary to national criminal jurisdictions.It was set up in the wake of genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and created in 2002 by the Rome Statute Treaty.While the court is widely understood to be a great international achievement, it has also been cri...
Liam Fox's letter to David Cameron highlights tension within the Conservative party over plans to increase the amount of foreign aid Britain sends to developing countries.
The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor has today announced he is seeking the arrest of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and two others for crimes against humanity.
Both Jeremy Clarkson and Jemima Khan were forced to deny weekend rumours that they have individually taken out gagging orders preventing intimate photos of the pair from being published.
Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller "Three Cups of Tea," has been sued for fraud in a class-action case accusing him of fabricating much of his story to promote the book and his Montana-based charity.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of planning the 11 September terrorist attacks, which killed over 3,000 people in 2001, is to be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay.
Sport Media Group, the owner of the Daily Sport tabloid, has gone into administration.
A former British Airways worker has been sentenced to prison for 30 years after being found guilty of plotting to destroy a plane in a terrorist attack.
There was little good news for Fianna Fáil this past weekend with a general election expected to be held on 25 February and no change in the prediction that the current ruling party are going to lose badly. However, with a new party leader, Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil's support does appear to have stabilised at 16 per cent. This was found to be the case in two opinion polls, one conducted by Red Co for the Sunday Business Post and another by MillwardBrown Lansdowne for the Sunday Independen...
Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) will set up a joint venture with a local company to develop rare earths in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, the China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.
The media empire of Rupert Murdoch has found itself a new foe in the form of the Church of England. Rather than say "render unto God what is God's and to Murdoch what is Murdoch's", the CoE has expressed its opposition to the takeover of BSkyB by News Corporation, as such a move could undermine impartiality at Sky news.
