phone hacking

• The day the circus came to town
  Posted on November 28, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Any regular readers of this blog, and I guess there must be a couple of you, may have noticed that I have cleverly managed to avoid writing about the Leveson inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press. This is not so much because of a lack of interest on my part, although at times the saturation coverage was tedious in the extreme, but because I genuinely had no idea what I thought about it all.
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  Posted in: Uncategorised
  Tagged: Leveson inquiry, freedom of the press, statutory regulation, Press Complaints Commission, phone hacking
• It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black: my thoughts on 2011 and 2012 (part 2)
  Posted on January 3, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Well here we are, 2012 is up and, while not quite running yet, gingerly poking its feet out from under the duvet. It’s fair enough to be a bit cautious about rushing headlong into January if the last year is anything to go by. The first full year of the coalition government has been something of a rollercoaster, whichever side of the political divide you sit and whatever your area of concern. Looking at it from a legal perspective, it’s hard not to conclude that we are heading for a derailment in 2012 as we rush headlong, and blindly, down the tracks of reform.
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  Posted in: Justice system, Legal aid
  Tagged: 2012, Cameron, catgate, clegg, Human Rights Act, LASPO, legal aid cuts, Leveson, phone hacking, prisoners voting rights, privacy, riots, tax