In a move that’s in dir­ect con­flict with the 1688 BIll of Rights guar­an­tee­ing the unres­tric­ted report­ing of par­lia­ment (“[t]hat the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or ques­tioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament”), the Guardian today was gagged by a high court injunc­tion from report­ing par­lia­ment­ary pro­ceed­ings.

Fortunately, the Guardian is able to tell us who the law­yers for the plain­tif were. They’re Carter-Ruck, who just so hap­pen to be men­tioned in the list of Parliamentary Questions for Wednesday 14th October.

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N		 Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assess­ment he has made of the effect­ive­ness of legis­la­tion to pro­tect (a) whis­tleblowers and (b) press free­dom fol­low­ing the injunc­tions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields soli­cit­ors on 19 March 2009 on the pub­lic­a­tion of internal Barclays reports doc­u­ment­ing alleged tax avoid­ance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck soli­cit­ors on 11 September 2009 on the pub­lic­a­tion of the Minton report on the alleged dump­ing of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, com­mis­sioned by Trafigura.
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Thanks to @handelaar, and Richard Wilson for point­ing this out.