Chris Bryant Warned Over Leveson Leaks

PA/The Huffington Post UK  |  Posted: 26/04/2012 11:45 Updated: 26/04/2012 11:45

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Chris Bryant has been warned over possible leaks from the Leveson Inquiry

Lord Justice Leveson warned against leaks today after a Labour MP quoted from a document that had not been publicly released by the inquiry.

Chris Bryant suggested in the House of Commons yesterday that David Cameron may have misled Parliament when he said he only met Rupert Murdoch once between May 2010 and July 2011.

Raising a point of order, the MP said: "Rupert Murdoch - this has been published by the Leveson Inquiry - made it clear that there were meetings with the Prime Minister on May 18, May 25, July 21, another on July 21, and July 22."

In fact no such information had been released by the inquiry on its website at that time.

Bryant is a "core participant" in the Leveson Inquiry, meaning he has advance access to documents and witness statements via a secure computer system called Lextranet.

Lord Justice Leveson said today: "Core participant status is not intended to provide an advantage to core participants, and so permit them to publish material before it is available for publication by those who are not core participants."

He added: "For the avoidance of doubt, nobody should be publishing anything using the material from Lextranet, which is intended to be only to provide core participants with fore-warning of statements and exhibits.

"Everyone must understand that it is only the redacted statements or exhibits that can ever be published or referred to."

Lord Justice Leveson said he has redrafted his order banning publication of material before it is posted on the inquiry's website to make it clearer.

"The new order will be placed on the website immediately and I will treat any breach of it as a matter of real significance," he said.

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08:20 PM on 04/28/2012
Utterly wrong that he should use his position of access to unreleased inquiry information for political opportunism.
09:09 AM on 04/27/2012
It is an offence to tell the truth in the house ,that.s why they rules in place to stop that kind of thing.
09:04 AM on 04/27/2012
Oh you are are not supposed to know that ,no its there version of transparent ,its whats called selective evidence .
12:59 AM on 04/27/2012
The dates of those meetings are quite shortly after the election.... So, Murdoch took precedent over the country; this surely shows what Cameron's priorities were.
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Blockem1
When will our politicians start putting policies
07:30 PM on 04/26/2012
Why is he attempting to ban publication of the fact that the prime minister has once again lied to us.
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clownzozo
Magician, Novelist and an Angry Old Git
06:58 PM on 04/26/2012
Who makes up these rules and are they even lawful? "No man shall be judge in his own cause," Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, suggest otherwise.
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03:23 AM on 04/27/2012
Sadly though'..Magna Carta'(issued june 15 1215) wasn't meant to include us peasants though'..It was set up for the Barons and Lords'..The whole object of this shambolic government is too keep us all down to serfdom'..I have a feeling that any Bill Of Rights'legistlation wouldn't fare much better either'..Because it would be too complex to set-up' even if anyone had the will to do it.?
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clownzozo
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08:04 AM on 04/27/2012
That's what the politicians would like us to believe, but Magna Carta and Bill of Rights cannot be removed as this gem from the Metric Martyr's successful appeal confirms:
(Divisional Court ruling in the case of the "Metric Martyrs" 2002, (sections 62 and 63) said:

"We should recognise a hierarchy of Acts of Parliament: as it were "ordinary" statutes and "constitutional statutes". The special status of constitutional statutes follows the special status of constitutional rights. Examples are the Magna Carta, Bill of Rights 1689 … Ordinary statutes may be impliedly repealed. Constitutional statutes may not…")
This is why parking tickets and fixed penalty ticket appeals are no longer dealt with in a Court of Law, but by a Quango, because they are unlawful.:

"That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular
persons before conviction are illegal and void;" Bill of Rights

Fines and the seizing of our property, before conviction in a Court of Law trial by jury) are banned in law. The threat of fines used to control and intimidate us actually void the offence. Juries have the authority to order unfair and unjust laws to be scrapped, and the Government will not risk that happening.
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Blockem1
When will our politicians start putting policies
05:42 PM on 04/26/2012
Dodgy Dave is once again letting the British public know just how honest a chap he is ,lies lies and yet more lies.
02:43 PM on 04/26/2012
Complete openness - and living with the consequences - would remove this problem.
01:45 PM on 04/26/2012
Does this mean Cameron is a liar or corrupt or both?
11:56 AM on 04/26/2012
assessing* sorry.
11:55 AM on 04/26/2012
Interesting. Was Chris Bryant acting in the public interest?

One could reasonably argue that he was. And then, accessing the public interest is rather central to the Leveson inquiry.

A pleasant little irony.