Who left their Brain at Home....?

IRE60

From Press Gazette:

Use of Twitter has been banned from the tax evasion trial of Harry Redknapp after a journalist named a juror on the social networking site.

The same reporter, who is understood to be a staff journalist with Guardian News and Media, is believed to have also reported the evidence of a witness given under oath when the jury was not present.

Both breaches have resulted in the judge banning the use of Twitter and ‘live text' at the trial and referring the case to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve.

Michael O Toole

Jesus, that's terrible.

Yet another reporter covering a court case who does not have a clue.

Pathetic.

coylemj

That journo should be fired for crass stupidity. Naming a juror in any medium is a complete no no and as a staffie he should know that anything said in the absence of the jury is completely embargoed until the trial is over.

I'm surprised the judge didn't abort the trial, lock up the journo for a week for contempt and haul his editor into court the following day for a dressing down.

Michael O Toole

Yeah, but, IMHO, his tweeting of evidence heard in the absence of the jury is inexcusable.

And the news editor who sent him there without checking whether he knew the most basic rules of court reporting should also get a rocket.

dublinman1990

A truly rotten story IMO. At least it will never happen here in Ireland.

The name of the journalist involved is Jamie Jackson who is a sports reporter with the Guardian.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2093280/Harry-Redknapp-trial-journalist-faces-jail-naming-juror.html

I hope he gets what coming to him. He should have known that the legal trouble he gets into with the courts and the paper itself could possibly make him ruin his career.

Is it also not normal for the editor of the Guardian to discuss the arrest of the four sun Journalists for phone hacking?

coylemj

Hmmmm, given that it's the Guardian I can see a large fine and a slap on the wrist, he just might get away with it. If it was a Murdoch paper he'd be on the prison ship to Van Diemen's land at this stage.

But sending a sports journo to a jury trial with a twitter device = accident waiting to happen.