Freedom of information in the WikiLeaks era
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Julian Assange is more than capable of dominating a room he’s not actually in, showed Monday’s event at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, ‘Freedom of Information in the WikiLeaks Era’.
His lawyer Mark Stephens, however, was there to articulate (if not represent) WikiLeaks’ and Assange’s position and activity as he understood it.
A panel, chaired by legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg and also including David Banisar (Article 19), Chris Bradshaw (Ministry of Justice), Andrew Murray (LSE), and James Leaton Gray (BBC) alongside Stephens, discussed the ethics, role and legal implications of WikiLeaks and similar operations.
WikiLeaks good or WikiLeaks bad, Rozenberg asked at the end. Stephens had already left the room by that point, but the audience could probably could guess his answer.
‘Both,’ said Article 19’s senior legal counsel David Banisar. Bad, in the context of the UK, said the MoJ’s Bradshaw. ‘Bad,’ said Murray. ‘Inevitable,’ said the BBC’s Leaton Gray.
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