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  1. Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented # for the first time in memory # from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.
  2. Guardian gagged from reporting Parliament
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
  3. How the Trafigura story came to be told
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Gag defeated by press, web users and MPs.
  4. Trafigura gag attempt unites house in protest
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Efforts by the law firm Carter-Ruck to stop reporting of a Commons question about Trafigura have outraged MPs on all sides.

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