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Opinion: Standing your ground against legal threats

Freedom of speech is a topic I talked about at last year’s Spring Conference (and got a few laughs for doing so). The Trafigura / Carter-Ruck episode showed how gagging orders on the press are used to suppress embarrassing information. After writing recently about the local Labour Party, I have found myself threatened in a similar way by a PR company (who strangely are paid for out of taxes).

My local authority sold its housing stock to a limited company (let’s call this Company A) which is tens of thousand of properties in the Borough. This company now receives about £43 …

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