The super-injunction story is moving so fast now it’s hard to keep up. The premiership footballer* who is suing Twitter has been ‘outed’ by Twitter users so many times that there can be very few remotely interested people who don’t now know who he is. His name has been mockingly chanted at football matches, and
Continue reading →Sir Fred named, and shamed
March 11, 2011 By
Super-injunctions, eh – don’tcha just love’em? This week’s bizarre events – with former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin revealed in parliament as the man behind a super-injunction so all-encompassing that it forbade publication even of the fact that the man involved was a banker – reaffirms my view that these blunt legal
Continue reading →Slightly-less-than-super-injunctions?
March 12, 2010 By
To an interesting Media Society debate last night, on whether journalists and lawyers are enemies or natural bedfellows – focusing on the hot topic of the all-encompassing ‘super-injunctions’, which prevent papers from even whispering that they exist, let alone the allegations they concern. They have become an effective method for the rich and famous to
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