Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 29 (Jan)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWHC 13 (Admin)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Divisional Court
Judge:

Hooper LJ and Singh J
Representation Lord Pannick QC and Tom Cleaver (instructed by BBC Legal Department) for the claimants.
  James Eadie QC and Martin Chamberlain (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Secretary of State.
  Phillippa Kaufmann QC (instructed by Bhatt Murphy) for the A.
Judgment Dates: 11 January 2012

Catchwords

Broadcasting - Content of programmes - Right to freedom of expression - Claimants being refused permission to conduct face-to-face interview with prisoner - Whether refusal violating right to freedom of expression - European Convention on Human Rights, art 10, , .

The Case

Broadcasting Content of programmes. The Divisional Court, in allowing the claimants' application for judicial review, held that the defendant Secretary of State's decision to refuse permission to conduct a face-to-face interview with the interested party prisoner, had constituted a disproportionate interference with the right to freedom of expression in art10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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