{"id":538886,"date":"2022-03-03T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2fffd4bd380db5e4b21bad71dbe8c5e4"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:26:34","slug":"uk-two-court-cases-present-new-barriers-to-independent-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/03\/uk-two-court-cases-present-new-barriers-to-independent-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Two court cases present new barriers to independent reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expresses concern over two recent court cases that will serve as obstacles to independent reporting, related to the misuse of private information and source protection. These cases were heard against a broader backdrop of growing legal restrictions on the media, and could contribute to further deterioration of press freedom in the UK. RSF calls on the courts to avoid imposing unnecessary barriers to reporting.\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p class=\"text-justify\">On 16 February, the High Court ruled against Bloomberg LP in a case related to the misuse of private information.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/uk-two-court-cases-present-new-barriers-independent-reporting\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) expresses concern over two recent court cases that will serve as obstacles to independent reporting, related to the misuse of private information and source protection. These cases were heard against a broader backdr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538887,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538886\/revisions\/538887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}