#CourtsDesk

Tara Calishain

@researchbuzz.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Labour u-turns on court archive deletion - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage Victory for journalists over case records

#UK #legal #transparency #Courtsdesk

'The move sparked protests from journalists amid fears of important public interest cases going unreported.

Now the Ministry of Justice, headed by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, has paused the deletion order.'

www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2026/news/la...

Owen Boswarva

@owenboswarva.bsky.social

1 month ago

"The fact is that the MoJ court records are in a complete mess. The only way to make sense of them – bar whipping out the scissors and the pritt stick as I used to do – is to compile all the different lists into a computer software which is capable of searching through them, i.e. Courtsdesk. But MoJ reckons that innovation is a breach of data protection, so here we are. "I think everyone in the media industry would share my complete lack of confidence in HMCTS's ability to produce their own workable version of what Courtsdesk had created. We can only hope."

Journalists voice dismay over court archive deletion www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2026/news/jo... (UK)

Court Reporting Data hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026... Commons debate earlier this week

Posts from Enda Leahy, CEO of Courtsdesk endaleahy.substack.com

#Courtsdesk #dataprotection #openjustice

Alec Muffett

@alecmuffett.bsky.social

1 month ago

MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive Interesting to compare this to government dismay when Meta shut down CrowdTangle; apparently government hates being held to account by third parties: Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive […sa…

MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive
https://alecmuffett.com/article/144862
#CourtsDesk #CrowdTangle #censorship