judgement is taking him onto constitutionally dangerous ground when he
begins to attack the right of MPs and peers to speak freely under
parliamentary privilege.
In essence the problem here is that the UK's laws on privacy were imposed on
us from a foreign court and Parliament simply rubber-stamped that law by
passing the Human Rights Act which is increasingly bringing the courts into
conflict with the democratic institutions of the state which must take
precedence.
If Lord Judge's statement was not enough confusion added to the subject some
footballer is now trying to take legal action against Twitter because some
tweeter blabbed about the injunction banning references to his affair with
Imogen Thomas.
/As Twitter is an American corporation with no legal presence in the UK I
reckon he's wasting his money unless, of course, he can demonstrate that
Twitter has breached the law in whichever US jurisdiction applies.
Parliament really has to get a grip and frame a privacy law and we need to
make it clear that the ECHR no longer applies here if it conflicts with
domestic law.
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