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On Article 8, the courts and media responsibility.
November 15, 2009 | No Commentsa speech by Mr Justice Eady at the University of Hertfordshire on 10th November, 2009
“Seeking to balance competing freedoms can never be easy. Better by far, though, if those decisions are called correctly in newsrooms or editorial offices in the first instance. The courts are making it clear that they require media responsibility. They have given their steer. They should now be the place of last resort.”
That is a proposition upon which we can perhaps all agree. The less opportunities there are for portraying the courts as being in conflict with freedom of the press, the better it will be for all concerned.
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Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Media Law
