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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/judge-to-issue-twitter-guidance.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A judge is due to issue guidance on the use of Twitter to report proceedings in court" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-judge-to-issue-twitter-guidance.jpg" alt="A judge is due to issue guidance on the use of Twitter to report proceedings in court"/></a></p>
<p>The country&#8217;s top judge will issues guidance on Monday on the use of micro-blogging site Twitter to report proceedings in court.</p>
<p>Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, will give &#8220;interim&#8221; guidance on the use of Twitter and &#8220;electronic devices&#8221;, pending the outcome of a consultation process with the media on the issue.</p>
<p>The announcement that he would be giving the guidance was made last Thursday &#8211; hours after supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were banned from posting updates from court while a High Court judge decided whether he should be granted bail.</p>
<p>Mr Justice Ouseley, who went on to give Mr Assange conditional bail that day, ruled at the start of the proceedings that supporters and journalists should not send Tweets to give a blow-by-blow account of what was happening.</p>
<p>At an earlier bail hearing, District Judge Howard Riddle had allowed Tweeting from City of Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court, which some commentators proclaimed as a legal first.</p>
<p>He said journalists could send messages as long as they were discreet and did not interfere with the judicial process.</p>
<p>Last week the judicial communications office said Lord Judge would issue new guidance for all courts at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman said he &#8220;will issue interim guidance on the use of Twitter and electronic devices for the purpose of reporting court proceedings pending the conclusion of a consultation process&#8221;.</p>
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