BBC: David Cameron’s concern about injunctions creating privacy law
April 21st, 2011Posted by Sarah Booker in Editors' pick, Legal, Press freedom and ethics
The BBC has reported that the prime minister, David Cameron has expressed his unease at judges using human rights legislation “to deliver a sort of privacy law”.
Mr Cameron made the comments about injunctions during a question-and-answer session at a General Motors factory in Luton.
What ought to happen in a parliamentary democracy, is Parliament, which you elect and put there, should decide how much protection we want for individuals and [on] freedom of the press and the rest of it.
The full article can be read here.
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