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UK: Judge praises Press Association reporter for ‘responsible journalism of a very high order’ after raising anonymity concerns

Posted on October 9, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Press Gazette reports:

A High Court judge praised Press Association journalist Brian Farmer for “responsible journalism of a very high order” after he raised issues connected with anonymity in judgments and publications bans.

Farmer pointed out to Mr Justice MacDonald that an anonymised judgment he had published, in a case in which he ordered that a man could no longer exercise parental responsibility in respect of his children, or even see their school reports, contained enough information to allow the family involved to be identified.

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