What civil court reporters can and can’t say

One of the few professional specialisms I’m any good at is court reporting – specifically, civil court reporting. Over a quiet couple of evenings, I jotted down a few of the things I think the rest of the world (mainly lawyers from both halves of the profession and possibly court staff) should know.

On the news media and the Ministry of Defence

I was reading defence blogger Sir Humphrey’s end of year roundup post and a couple of points he made about the MoD and its relationship with the media inspired me to give my own perspective on media relations with the MoD.

Introduction

Hello. You’ve probably got here by googling my name. I am a London journalist, at present a reporter on enterprise IT news website The Register. I was a sub-editor there until I swapped professional disciplines a while ago. I specialise in writing about autonomous vehicles (land, sea and air drone technologies and how they interface with the real world), all things relating to the Ministry of Defence (in particular, ships, aircraft and small arms) and court reporting on anything that passes through the High Court, Court of Appeal or Supreme Court.

You can read more about my professional doings on the “about” page.

I set this blog up as a student. I keep it online so I retain control of the URL but otherwise it’s updated very rarely.