Charlie Moloney

The unboxing video everybody has been waiting for has just dropped.

The High Court judge who lifted David Walliams' anonymity did not close the door on the possibility that the media can be prevented from naming a celebrity because they pose a suicide risk.

I spoke to @thetrialpod about how an injunction like this could happen again in future:

Fair observation by @BarristerSecret that some of the media critique of certain aspects of Ian Winter KC's advocacy was unfair / wrong.
1 example: scorn for his submission that a victim was "not particularly vulnerable". Which, as TSB points out, the judge literally AGREED with:

I agree with this. But, alas, I fear that actually it is the influencers, the content chatterers who do better financially out of these stories.

Zero cost expended for online content creators unearthing this; yet they now can reap profits from creating an episode dissecting it.

I reflected on The Addition pod on how the David Walliams injunction case came shortly after the media had been shaken by the death of Jason Arday.

But I think everyone recognised that Walliams retaining anonymity would set a dangerous precedent, despite his clear suicide risk: