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Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle Makes History by Permitting Twitter Tweets by Reporters During WikiLeaks Bail Application

By Andis Kaulins

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We are a bit late on this, but John Bingham, and Andrew Hough on December 14, 2010 headlined at the Telegraph that WikiLeaks: Julian Assange bail hearing makes legal history with Twitter ruling, writing inter alia:
"The district judge hearing the bail application from Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, made an unusual form of legal history allowing live updates to be sent from his court on the website Twitter....

Howard Riddle, the Chief Magistrate, agreed that reporters could send the short messages, known as ?Tweets? as long as they did so 'quietly' and 'did not disturb' the court."

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