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May 22, 2011 · The British brouhaha surrounding the mass online breach of so-called “super injunctions” will not deter Twitter from opening a new office in London. In fact, it looks as though its first...
Nov 23, 2023 · A super injunction is like a regular injunction on steroids. When it comes to the media, a normal injunction would stop a news outlet from publishing a certain piece of private information. A super injunction goes one step further by doing the above and preventing the media from publishing anything about the existence of the injunction itself.
- What Are super-injunctions?
- Anonymity Orders
- The Power of The Court to Enforce Super-Injunctions and Anonymity Orders
- Tension Between The Courts and Parliament
Super-injunctions are privacy injunctions that prevent publication of the fact that the court has made an injunction. Or, in the somewhat longer definition adopted by the Committee on Super-Injunctions, they are interim injunctions which restrain a person from: (i) publishing information which concerns the applicant and is said to be confidential o...
In cases involving the alleged misuse of private information, the claimant frequently seeks an order that he or she should be anonymised in the court documents and in any report of the proceedings. Such orders are often granted. This has been viewed by some sections of the media as an act of provocation. Certain newspapers have campaigned against w...
An order by the court is not going to be of much use to anyone if it cannot be enforced. The integrity of super-injunctions and anonymity orders has come under assault on two fronts: online social media and, more surprisingly, politicians. Since privacy injunctions are a talking-point for the public, it is obvious that they will be talked about on ...
The identification in Parliament of two litigants who had been given anonymity by the courts creates an obvious tension between Parliament and the courts. According to the retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Stephen Sedley, the naming of Fred Goodwin in the House of Lords and Ryan Giggs in the Commons is a “serious breach of constitutional principle”...
“On super injunctions: that issue has almost become redundant because they are now very exceptional. But on privacy injunctions more widely, hopefully Lord Neuberger’s committee will say it is for Parliament to look at and whether courts are properly interpreting them under the Human Rights Act.”
Jun 6, 2011 · The war between the courts, the media, parliament and twitter users over the role of the super-injunction reveals the unresolved tension between the UK's commitments to upholding privacy...
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This article is a list of known legal cases involving super-injunctions, a type of anonymised privacy injunction that prevents both (a) the publication of why an injunction has been obtained and (b) the publication that an injunction has been obtained.
