In contempt of court?
Opps, might have been in contempt of a court suppression order. An MP broke a name suppression order during Questions for Oral Answer on Thursday 26 June 2008. The name appears in the Hansard published on the Parliament’s website and for a period it also appeared on the TheyWorkForYou.co.nz website.
The software running TheyWorkForYou.co.nz republishes the Hansard as found on the parliament.nz website. While there is no copyright preventing republishing of the New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, members in the House are not bound by a court order, but the rest of us are.
As soon as I was notified of the issue, I manually altered the content of the text in question to hopefully prevent any allegations that it may be in contempt of the court order.
Now all that’s left to ponder is whether Google’s search results are in contempt.
