Yet more developments in the ongoing saga of the "Lockerbie Bomber" Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi are discussed in my Yell.com blog post: Lockerbie release criticised by Justice Committee.

With news of the justice committee's divided censure of the Justice Secretary and Judicial Watch going to court in the USA to get Lockerbie files from the FBI, it's well worth a read.

And here's the link to the Justice Committee Report SP Paper 383: The decision on Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

Labels: criminal law, Freedom of Information, News, Yell.com Solicitors Blog

I came across this on another blog and really liked the idea.

IRREPRESSIBLE.INFO is an Amnesty International campaign, which highlights Internet censorship across the globe.

From the site:

"Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.

"The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments - with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world - are cracking down on freedom of expression."

As you may have noticed at the foot of the right hand column, the site allows you to post a widget on your own website, which displays a random selection of snippets from websites and blogs which have been censored somewhere. The campaign site invites you to "undermine unwarranted censorship by publishing censored material from our database directly onto your site". Count me in!

You'll have to excuse me while I go and lie down for a bit ... I suddenly feel quite ... seditious (and I think I like it).

Labels: Freedom of Information, Human Rights, News

Peter Cherbi's Diary of Injustice in Scotland asks the (not unreasonable) question: why, if the new Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is subject to Freedom of Information legislation, is the Law Society of Scotland not?

He concludes: "What could there be to gain from allowing the Law Society of Scotland to remain exempt from Freedom of Information legislation? Nothing honest, that's for sure!"

Labels: Freedom of Information