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Select tickets – The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography – Council Room, Strand Campus, King's College London
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David Banks @DBanksy 16h [profile: Media law trainer & consultant. Legal commentator, author, journalist,]
Someone has been arrested in connection with the death of Ann Widdecombe - that means publishing anything, including posts on X, which risks seriously prejudicing a trial, is an offence. It also doesn't help her friends and family in obtaining justice. Link in next post...
Nigel XYY man @NigelXYYMan. 14h
No it doesn't. He's not been charged. Arresting somebody is not the serious.
You obviously don't understand the law. It's only subjudice once, the person is charged with a crime. Police arrest people all the time. It isn't that serious until you're charged.
David Banks @DBanksy
Well. I co-wrote three editions of McNae's Essential Law for Journalists and specifically the chapter on contempt, so I think maybe I've got a better grip of it than you.
Schedule 1, Contempt of Court Act 1981, says proceedings are active once someone is arrested. Look it up.
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