Responsible Legal Journalism
There have been a couple of incidents in the past week that have given me cause to reflect on what I do.
It would be a big claim to call what I do journalism. My qualifications are in the law and so blogging and podcasting about legal issues only comes half-naturally to me.
I like to think that this makes me especially careful about what I say or write but the truth is that there have probably been odd mistakes that have crept in here or there over the years. After all, there have been over 200 episodes of the podcast and simply by virtue of the law of averages there will be errors dotted about.
Nevertheless I think legal journalists and bloggers can be careful about how we cover the law and that can act as a semi-preventative aspect of our work.
That brings us to the recent controversies in this sphere.