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2 giorni fa · Samantha Brown, who was abused by Jimmy Savile, said she had been “utterly shocked” by the law because investigations into sexual offences can take “years” and it is often investigative ...
1 giorno fa · Under the law as it applied in Northern Ireland, notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile could no longer be identified because he was not charged during his lifetime . By Aeneas Bonner.
2 giorni fa · It had been said by way of example that prohibiting the naming of alleged sexual offenders for up to 25 years after their death would have stopped allegations against Jimmy Savile from being aired.
2 giorni fa · Speaking outside the court, McBride welcomed the judgment. “This was a very dangerous law. It criminalised us as journalists, criminalised anybody from saying something as basic as ‘Jimmy Savile was a paedophile’,” he said. “That is outrageous, it is bonkers, it should never ever have been passed by the Northern Ireland assembly.
15 ore fa · I’d bet that for most of us this horrible thought experiment conjures up a Jimmy Savile-style monster sitting in front of the computer screen. But new research from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child sexual abuse prevention charity, highlights how this paradigm does not by itself account for the scale of online offending.
1 giorno fa · In a significant legal victory for public interest journalism, a High Court judge has ruled that a controversial new law in Northern Ireland that grants automatic anonymity to people suspected of sexual offences pre-charge – and would have prevented reporting of allegations against Jimmy Savile in the country – is incompatible with press rights to freedom of expression (Belfast Telegraph ...
2 giorni fa · The ruling, which was handed down in the High Court today, followed widespread criticism of the legislation which granted anonymity to suspects in sexual offence cases for 25 years after their death and was previously described by the Society as legislation that would have prevented the reporting of allegations against Jimmy Savile in Northern Ireland.
