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Free speech ? the gloves are off

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In the 1960s, when I began to practise law, there was no positive right to free speech in English law. Free speech was a strong British political value, but as a matter of English law it was merely the space left by the criminal and civil law ? official secrecy, fair trials, contract, confidentiality, copyright, defamation and the rest.

Full post as published by International and UK Law on May 29, 2010 (boomark / email).

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