Where has Prince Andrew gone?

Does the palace have more money than the Government?
So royalty can afford the best lawyers in the world?

I read that legal proceedings are being taken by the Palace against Sunday newspapers who ran the story yesterday.

We have been allowed to speculate to our hearts' content in recent sexual abuse cases involving minor celebrities.

What about 'legal reasons' then?

www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=9374338 makes interesting reading.

Sub judice doesn't apply unless someone has been arrested and charged, but libel applies at any time. GNHQ is just wisely protecting its collective butt.

Your link covers UK law, Nellie. Is there a prosecution pending here? I thought this latest news was in relation to proceedings in the US.

I think in the circumstances that is wise. Uninformed speculation can get out of hand and things might be said in jest or whatever. This is an open Forum.

Specific allegations have been made and these might well need to be properly challenged under normal court rules. This could mean that idle gossip could influence jurors wrongly in either direction.

What ever happened to rules about subjudicy? Some British legal cases have been dropped or seriously delayed at great costs because jurors are ignoring theses rules.

This link explains this further . Any person ignoring such rules could be in prosecuted for contempt of court which is a very serious offence.

www.out-law.com/page-9742

Similar happening on Mumsnet

There was a message from GNHQ saying they were deleting the thread for legal reasons.

That's strange. I'm on another forum where there has been a thread running for ages about cover ups[including this latest one] and no one has pulled that one. I think we need an explanation.

Big Brother?

Blimey!