Sentences with phrase «favour of a free press»
It's a balance and my view is that we should always balance in favour of a free press.»
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The Telegraph, reporting a poll commissioned by the Free Speech Network, a lobbying body favouring non-statutory regulation of the press
The Royal Free hospital and medical school hold a televised press conference, at which Wakefield advises parents to boycott MMR in favour of single vaccines.
In the absence of responsible restraint, Findlay believes there is no option but to press for greater empowerment in the regulation of the press — something governments are notoriously shy of: «If you are going to have a free press, which you must have, I would favour regulation, so that they know precisely where they can and can not go.
The strong presumption in favour of open court proceedings (and therefore against anonymity of litigation participants) has recently been re-emphasized by the Supreme Court in A.B. v. Bragg Communications Inc., 2012 SCC 46: ``... the critical importance of the open court principle and a free press has been tenaciously embedded in the jurisprudence and need not be further revisited here.»