It seems waste dumping bastards oil company Trafigura and their libel lawyers Carter Ruck didn’t learn very much from their comprehensive owning at the hands of the blogosphere in October. The New Statesman is reporting that the video ‘Dirty Tricks and Toxic Waste in the Ivory Coast’ has been removed from the BBC’s website after they [...]
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Trafigura YouTube video: we injuncted Guardian because Minton Report was "a work in progress"
Having realised that bringing a whole load of Orwell to the party doesn’t work, Trafigura have bypassed old media and hit YouTube with an injunction the following interview with director Pierre Lorinet: In the interview – possibly conducted with staffer from PR spinners Bell Pottinger – Lorinet tries to explain away the Minton Report and the injunction [...]
Carter-Ruck react with new website and PR offensive
After a difficult 48 hours which saw the law firm under assault from the blogosphere, politicians and the media, Carter-Ruck is to undertake a PR charm offensive with redeveloped online content and endorsements from “brand ambassadors”. The campaign has enlisted the support of celebrity Labour blogger Derek Draper. “The combination of litigiousness and a cack-handed approach [...]
Channel 4 News reports on Guardian gagging order
With the reporting ban lifted, the Guardian/blogosphere vs Trafigura/Carter-Ruck maelstrom of the last 24 hours got a decent look in on Channel 4 News earlier this evening. There’s even a cameo from the blogosphere’s celebrity libertarian: Scrapbook reckons there’s something a bit Phil Spector about Alan Rusbridger. Perhaps it’s the glasses?
How the blogosphere vs Trafigura and Carter-Ruck unfolded
At 8:30pm last night, an article entitled Guardian gagged from reporting parliament appeared on the newspaper’s website. Twelve hours later, Trafigura – a large but inconspicuous trader in oil and base metals – was on the lips of bloggers and tweeters everywhere along with Carter Ruck, their libel lawyers. Just before 10pm Guido reproduces the [...]
Trafigura: "the biggest toxic dumping scandal of the 21st century"
Through their attempts to gag the reporting of parliament, Trafigura (turnover $73bn) have given a new lease of lease of life to the following story (click for video): “A smaller company might by now be drowning in scandal” – Newsnight To top things off the document they may have been attempting to suppress – the [...]
Uncorrected Select Committee evidence on Trafigura and Carter Ruck
Further to the breaking story of a cack-handed attempt to gag reporting of parliament, below is an excerpt from an uncorrected transcript of oral evidence given by Mark Stephens to the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee. Stephens is a media lawyer and partner in Finer Stephens Innocent LLP: Mark Stephens: I would say removing [...]
Carter Ruck eaten alive by the blogosphere
Doesn’t look good. Or, in the words of one tweeter, “had never heard of Trafigura until they tried to ban the reporting of parliament”. Click for the links.
