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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.
May 9, 2011 · The UK media has been unable to name the offending account for fear of breaking a series of so-called super-injunctions brought by public figures. These court rulings have been ignored by...
Interesting how Super Injunctions are used by the rich and powerful like Schofield, Nut and Todge in Britain; and the UK Parliament allows the injunctions to protect crimes. What a legal system! 💩. 04 Jun 2023 07:46:23
Nov 23, 2023 · Before proceeding with the application for a super injunction consider whether a regular injunction will be more suitable for your needs. There are two main types of injunctions: Traditional injunction – the parties involved are named, but the details of the facts involved cannot be revealed.
- 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”...
“There needs to be Government leadership on this to create a legislative framework outlining firstly in what situations it is appropriate to grant a super-injunction, and secondly, the procedures for disseminating information regarding the injunctions to prevent transgressions.
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In English tort law, a super-injunction is a type of injunction that prevents publication of information that is in issue and also prevents the reporting of the fact that the injunction exists at all. [1]
