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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...
- 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”...
May 10, 2011 · Campaigner Jemima Khan, known for her work during the Wikileaks affair, recently denied getting a super-injunction -- thus proving that she could not have done, otherwise would have been in...
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.
The rules of such platforms may oblige them to remove the posts that break a super-injunction, but only after a request from the person holding the injunction. More often than not, by this time it is too late and the previously secret information is widely known.
May 23, 2011 · Experian Hitwise, which gets its data from internet service providers, says UK traffic to Twitter's website hit a new high on Saturday, as a footballer's attempts to use the courts to identify...
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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.
