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The Western Morning News has issued a legal challenge to the Government over its attempt to “cover up” a secret report. Transport Minister David Jamieson has refused to publish a document commissioned by the Highways Agency about the Saltash Tunnel
The Peterborough Evening Telegraph has won a court case after the judge threw out a claim that the paper identified a youth responsible for a vicious assault on a pensioner. The decision to go to court has been attacked by
The Government is being urged to remove an amendment to the Sexual Offences Bill which would provide anonymity for rape defendants. Clause Two of the bill, which is currently passing through the Commons, would allow those charged with rape the
An Arab leader has dropped his appeal against the lifting of reporting restrictions on a case concerning arms cash deposits by the Middle Eastern state of Qatar. In December the Jersey Evening Post won a battle to persuade the Royal
The Plymouth Evening Herald has lost its appeal against a court ruling which said a photograph it published identified a 15-year-old boy even though it was partially blacked out. In January the paper was fined £1,500 after it was found
The name of a youth who was handed Grimsby’s first anti-social behaviour order has been revealed in the press thanks to a legal challenge from the Evening Telegraph. Magistrates ruled it would be in the public interest to identify him,
Manchester-based Cavendish Press staged a courtroom intervention when a judge ruled that a man on trial for rape could not be named under the Children and Young Persons Act. Judge Adrian Lyon agreed to defence counsel’s request for a Section
The South Shields Gazette has set a legal precedent in its fight to identify a young defendant. Because the defendant was 17 at the time of his offence, he was dealt with by South Tyneside Youth Court – but he
A legal application by the Halifax Courier has led to the identity of two teenage hooligans being revealed in print. The paper was keen to report on a pair of youngsters, aged 14 and 15, who were both given anti-social
The South Wales Evening Post has named a teenage drug dealer after it made a successful request to identify him. The 17-year-old was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court, but could not be named in press reports of the case after
The Evening Gazette has finally been able to name a 14-year-old who was made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order. In December the paper was prevented from identifying the boy by district judge James Prowse, sitting at Teesside Magistrates
The Plymouth Evening Herald has been fined £1,500 after a court ruled that a photograph published in the paper identified a 15-year-old boy – even though it was partially blacked out. The newspaper had denied a summons, under Section 49
A newspaper argued that a 17-year-old knife-wielding robber should be identified in the press because the public should be made aware of who had carried out the crimes – and he could hardly be described as “vulnerable”. He was appearing
A judge who reversed a decision on what could and could not be reported at certain drugs hearings at Gloucester Crown Court has expelled the press – after changing his mind again. Judge Gabriel Hutton agreed to re-admit the press
A quick-thinking trainee reporter has successfully overturned an order that would have prevented his newspaper from naming a young gang member who had terrorised his neighbourhood. Mike Sherburn, (26), who works for the Eastern Daily Press in its Lowestoft office,
The North West Evening Mail has named a teenage thug who attempted to gag the paper. The 17-year-old boy, who is the subject of an anti-social behaviour order, threatened the newspaper with legal action in a bid to stop his