WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITOR CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT OF COURT IN SINGAPORE
March 14th 2009 09:16
Rupert Murdoch may yet have to ride to the rescue following breaking news that the Singapore government is taking a senior editor of the Wall Street Journal to court, accusing her of being in contempt of court in three articles published last year in the Asian edition of the Journal.
The Straits Times reports that in the High Court on Friday, Justice Tay Yong Kwang granted an application by the Attorney-General to start proceedings against Ms Melanie Kirkpatrick, the deputy editor of the New York-based financial daily's editorial page.
In court documents seen by The Straits Times, the Attorney-General's Chambers said it was initiating proceedings against her for “actions which resulted in the publication and distribution” of articles that “contained passages that scandalise the Singapore judiciary.”
The articles were published in June and July last year in the editorials and opinion section of the Wall Street Journal Asia, which is the Journal’s sister paper.
In the court documents, the Attorney-General's Chambers noted that the publisher informed it that Kirkpatrick supervised and had oversight of that section. It understood this to mean she had ultimate editorial responsibility for the section.
The move comes three months after Dow Jones Publishing (Asia), which publishes the Wall Street Journal Asia, was found in contempt of court for the same articles.
Last November, Justice Tay found, among other things, that the articles alleged bias and lack of independence on the part of the judiciary
The Straits Times reports that in the High Court on Friday, Justice Tay Yong Kwang granted an application by the Attorney-General to start proceedings against Ms Melanie Kirkpatrick, the deputy editor of the New York-based financial daily's editorial page.
In court documents seen by The Straits Times, the Attorney-General's Chambers said it was initiating proceedings against her for “actions which resulted in the publication and distribution” of articles that “contained passages that scandalise the Singapore judiciary.”
In the court documents, the Attorney-General's Chambers noted that the publisher informed it that Kirkpatrick supervised and had oversight of that section. It understood this to mean she had ultimate editorial responsibility for the section.
The move comes three months after Dow Jones Publishing (Asia), which publishes the Wall Street Journal Asia, was found in contempt of court for the same articles.
Last November, Justice Tay found, among other things, that the articles alleged bias and lack of independence on the part of the judiciary
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