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Law Could Give AGs Power To Edit Online News
- Press Gazette, Tuesday, April 8, 2014 3 AM
Nine of Britain's biggest news organisations have issued a joint warning to MPs about the potential "chilling effect" of a planned law forcing online archive news stories to be removed in the run-up to a criminal trial. Clauses 37 and 38 of the new Criminal Justice and Courts Bill introduce new powers which will allow the Attorney General and the courts to require owners of online news archives to remove material which it is argued might prejudice upcoming proceedings.
