UK NEWS: TV STAR FIRST TO FACE JAIL OVER TWEETS AFTER PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER CLAIMS THEY BREACH INJUNCTION

May 22, 2011

Via The Daily Mail A journalist on one of Britain’s most respected newspapers – who also appears on a widely-viewed BBC programme – could face a jail sentence after naming on Twitter a Premier League footballer who had taken out a privacy injunction. In the first case of its kind, lawyers for the soccer star have persuaded a High Court judge to ask Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC to consider a criminal prosecution against the writer for breaching a privacy injunction. If […]