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Until last week I and the majority of the nation had no idea that there existed something called the ‘super injunction’ which not only prevented the media from mentioning a particular matter but even the existence of the injunction itself.
The latest case was bought on behalf of a footballer to prevent publication of his misdemeanours with the girlfriend of a team-mate. The temporary injunction was lifted by a High Court judge because, ‘the nub of the applicant’s complaint is to protect his reputation, in particular with sponsors’.
Super injunctions are seen as the courts bringing in a privacy law by the back door and, in this case, the judge wisely decided that freedom of speech should take precedence over privacy.
A commentator on television this morning mentioned that there may be as many as two hundred of these super injunctions in force at the moment, and one wonders what sort of matters they cover or whether more of them are as as trivial as the one lifted last week.
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Until last week I and the majority of the nation had no idea that there existed something called the ‘super injunction’ which not only prevented the media from mentioning a particular matter but even the existence of the injunction itself.
The latest case was bought on behalf of a footballer to prevent publication of his misdemeanours with the girlfriend of a team-mate. The temporary injunction was lifted by a High Court judge because, ‘the nub of the applicant’s complaint is to protect his reputation, in particular with sponsors’.
Super injunctions are seen as the courts bringing in a privacy law by the back door and, in this case, the judge wisely decided that freedom of speech should take precedence over privacy.
A commentator on television this morning mentioned that there may be as many as two hundred of these super injunctions in force at the moment, and one wonders what sort of matters they cover or whether more of them are as as trivial as the one lifted last week.
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