The Wire

A legal expert has joined media companies in opposing a court order, that is forcing the newspapers to take down 10 particular articles from their websites. The judge in the case, ruled in favour of defence lawyers, who say the articles might interfere with the accused receiving a fair trial. But the take down orders don’t extend to all copies of the articles and there is nothing to stop them from being reposted on other sites. The CEO of News Limited has recently described such orders as unnecessary and ineffective and Senior lecturer in Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Peter Black, agrees.