On 6/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/23/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
This is a surprising interpretation of the Rehabilition of Offenders Act 1974, given my well-thumbed copy of Law for Journalists devotes an entire chapter to warning readers to be careful about it. I'm not saying it is impermissible, but there are certainly some legal strictures involved.
As always, I'm glad wikien-l is not a forum for legal advice.
Well there is some fairly solid stuff about how you are allowed to get hold of the information.
-- geni
However if we look at say: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3025035.stm
If I've read the act correctly the conviction became spent over a year ago. Yet the BBC is still publishing that to people within the UK.