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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 the...
May 21, 2011 · A British football player (that's "soccer player" for the readers across the pond) has taken out a super-injunction in a UK court to prevent the publication of private information.
- 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”...
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.
May 10, 2011 · Super-injunctions prevent not only free speech and actions, but even the fact that an injunction has been granted. Twitter, however, may be the only lifeline to freedom of speech.
May 10, 2011 · A Twitter user who claims to have posted information that is banned from publication by the UK courts on the social network site could be found in contempt of court, a media law expert has said.
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Twitter appears to be the only party benefiting from the recent super-injunctions furore as reports abound of record traffic to its UK site. Meanwhile the UK courts have been left looking toothless and out of touch.
