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Old 10th Jan 2014, 14:21
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awblain
 
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Sub judice?

I think the onus is on participants in the ongoing legal process - the coroner, all protagonists, witnesses, and jurors - not to reveal private information from the court to a rumour website, rather than on rumour websites not to discuss matters involved.

If such confidential material should find itself here, then I reckon the moderators and operators of the site would be well advised to remove it, just as a newspaper wouldn't print it, both out of respect for the process and out of fear of being held in contempt.

If there's anyone who has valuable information that should be going to the inquest, but posts it here instead, then that would be another concern.

However, overall, this would seem to be a very natural place to find gossip and speculation about the inquest.
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