Whether Suella Braverman, the current Attorney General, is as mustard-keen on contempt as predecessors like Dominic Grieve remains to be seen. But with unlimited fines you probably don’t want to be the publication that tips her over the edge.
And if you want to be doubly sure of staying out of the proverbial, I provide pre-publication guidance. I’m pretty clear ‘Don’t publish that, you’ll go to jail’ tends to concentrate the mind.
Kudos to the first person who names the last UK editor to be jailed for contempt and for reporting which grisly murders?
Quick addendum, which may, or may not have some bearing on the Telegraph front page. The above website post holds true, until we come to terrorism offences...
Firstly, you have to understand that you can’t get prosecuted for contempt by publication by your local mad magistrate, or the Crown Prosecution Service, or even an outraged Criwn Court judge. The matter has to be referred to the Attorney General, Suella Braverman atm...
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