Supreme Court upholds right of classical pianist to tell compelling story of child sex abuse | David Hencke
An attempt to ban a book by a classical pianist James Rhodes where he revealed how he overcome his childhood trauma of sexual abuse through music has been comprehensively overturned by the Supreme Court.
The findings and the judgement are reported in detail on the excellent Inforrm blog site here
The decision overturns what will be seen as a rogue judgement by the Court of Appeal which allowed his former wife to ban publication of the book because it could cause distress and damage to the author’s son. This extraordinary judgement has been report on this site earlier.
Oooh wonder if they’ll ever try and do that to me when I publish my book about police misconduct (names have of course been changed to protect the innocent) … :-)