Monckton fails to censor BBC documentary with injunction
Lord Monckton has failed in his attempt to stop the BBC broadcasting tonight’s 10pm documentary Meet the Climate Sceptics. He made the challenge to the High Court on the basis of breach of contract because the programme will apparently not include a three- minute speech that he had prepared. The documentary followed Monckton around America as he criticised climate science.
According the Press Association, a lawyer for the BBC and Fresh One production company told the courrt that “the October 2010 contract provided for absolute editorial control by Fresh One and the BBC, there had been advance publicity for the broadcast and it would be problematic to show it at another time. He said that an injunction should not be granted as, though “dressed up” as a claim in contract, the real complaint was one of defamation.”
James Delingpole, who also features in the documentary, has leapt to his associates defence. But Monckton’s scientific record has been often challenged. Skeptical Science have published a series of critiques, presented here as a handy one-stop-shop.