In the wake of the scandal over telephone-hacking by the media, the Government asked a senior legal figure, Lord Justice Leveson, to lead an inquiry and make recommendations for the future governance of the press. Now, it seems that the Government is less than eager to hear what the honorable Lord has to say.
It is being reported that poor Leveson is expected to make a variety of recommendations which leading political figures are unlikely to find in favour of. Indeed, some senior Government figures, notable Michael Gove, have even been pouring scorn on what Leveson is believed to be going to suggest, making mockery of the Judge's position and attitudes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there has also been a sustained attack on the Judge's likely recommendations in various branches of the media but it is the pre-emptive strike by politicians that is the more worrying.
This seems to be a blatant example of Government failing to achieve the result they wanted and, therefore, simply setting about making the actual result appear to be stupid, uneducated, irrational and so on. Notwithstanding that Lord Justice leveson was appointed by the Government, they are being only too quick to distance themselves from his findings.
Whether the findings of his review are what the Government expected or not, the eminent Judge deserves to be treated with respect and not with the disdain that is currently being heaped upon him. People such as Gove bring ignominy and disrepute to themselves by acting in this way.
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