Privacy committee to grill editors and tech companies (Guardian)

MPs and peers expected to call newspaper editors, judges and technology
companies to public hearings

Paul Dacre, the lord chief justice, and executives from Twitter and Google are
expected be asked to give evidence to the parliamentary committee looking into
privacy injunctions, as work on setting up the body created by David Cameron
last month finally begins to move forward.

Those who are expected to sit on the committee say they want to call newspaper
editors, including the Daily Mail's Dacre, judges and technology companies to
public hearings ? and there is even hope that it may prove possible to ask one
of the celebrities involved in the injunction battle "to add to the gaiety of
proceedings".

However, while the prospect of Ryan Giggs giving evidence may be attractive to
the media, it is highly unlikely that he or anybody else locked in an
injunction battle would be willing or able to appear before the inquiry.

Ordinary Commons select committees do not have the power to compel witnesses
to give evidence, while the person embroiled in a court action is unlikely to
appear before parliament, a forum that some members have used to reveal the
identity of ...

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