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[Media Lens Message Board] Media Lens Message Board: The myth of the super-injunction and the ...: But these papers eagerly quote the granting of an injunction to Trafigura to stop the Guardian revealing its toxic waste dumping – oddly, at the time those papers barely covered that injunction: no sex, no celeb.'

[The Third Estate] Superinjunctions: For every Trafigura there's a Ryan Giggs: Presumably if Ryan Giggs (and Trafigura for that matter) believed that what they were or had been doing was right, then they had no need to seek legal concealment of their activities. That he sought legal remedy for any revelation of his actions as a sentient being indicates both that he knew that there would be consequences arising from them and that revelation of them would not reflect to his credit.

[I HATE HATE!!!] Super-injunctions must die!! « I HATE HATE!!!: Goldsmith has taken advantage of the controversy to suggest that Britain needs a proper privacy law to prevent inappropriate disclosure of people's private lives. But of course he would. ... This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 at 4:28 pm and is filed under court, Goldsmith, Jemima Khan, law, sodomy, super-injunctions, superinjunctions, Trafigura, UK, united kingdom, Zac Goldsmith. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. ...

[Inforrm's Blog] The MP and the “Super-Injunction” – rumour, myth and distortion ...: (or any other kind) has been taken out then it is likely that its purpose would have been to prevent publication in the press.  In order to do this it would have been necessary to serve the injunction on the newspapers.    In other words, the newspapers will know, one way or the other, whether this story is true.  If it were true then they would be breaking the terms of a  “super-injunction” by referring to it.  If the story is untrue they are misleading their readers by saying it has been granted (or, at the very least, by describing it as a “super-injunction”).

[Lawyer News & Information] Superinjunctions report – live updates | Lawyer News & Information: Lord Neuberger’s report, and the emphasis on “open justice”, will help to ensure proper scrutiny in the granting of super-injunctions, and to prevent inappropriate court decisions (such as Trafigura) where the public interest is clearly compromised. But we should beware further calls for liberalising the rules on injunctions, which are often little more than self-serving pleas by tabloid journalists wishing to expose the private lives of celebrities in order to boost newspaper sales.”

[Soundbytes: Michelle Dhillon's blog] Never Mind the Ballochs: Why the media must fight Super ...: Again, it was left to MP Paul Farrelly to table an awkward question in parliament about the super injunction and for a challenging newspaper to then pose some tricky questions on their website (MPs are allowed to raise questions and newspapers can cover parliamentary proceedings, whatever they may be) before Twitter went into meltdown because the public were rightly outraged at being kept in the dark about Trafigura’s activities.

[The Northern Echo | Sport] Delving into the super-injunctions (From The Northern Echo): And while it is regrettable that the sexual shenanigans of a professional footballer have sparked the first real debate about the growing conflict between a right to privacy, as enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights, and the public's right to know what is going on in the world, as embedded within the United Kingdom's unwritten constitution, the Trafigura case underlines why Giggs' love life is merely the tip of a very alarming iceberg.

[The Customer Collective] Sex, Privacy and Media Ethics | The Customer Collective: Well until a few days ago, Giggs, one of the UK's best known soccer players, was the mysterious unnamed figure who had successfully been granted a so-called super-injunction by the English courts. The injunction had been given to protect Giggs' privacy in the wake of an attempted kiss-and-tell story by Imogen Thomas, a former reality TV star, who claimed to have had an affair with the married, and previously squeaky-clean, soccer star.

[The Guardian] Superinjunctions report – live updates | the Guardian | 1bdNews: Lord Neuberger's report, and the emphasis on "open justice", will help to ensure proper scrutiny in the granting of super-injunctions, and to prevent inappropriate court decisions (such as Trafigura) where the public interest is clearly compromised. But we should beware further calls for liberalising the rules on injunctions, which are often little more than self-serving pleas by tabloid journalists wishing to expose the private lives of celebrities in order to boost newspaper sales."

[Index on Censorship] Index on Censorship » Blog Archive » Should we scrap superinjunctions?: Now, thanks to the Libel Reform Campaign, led by my organisation and our partners, the coalition government is introducing legislation that will go some way (not far enough yet, in our view) to reverse a trend that saw bloggers, authors, scientists, doctors and others all but destroyed for raising important issues at conferences and in print.

[The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship] How the injunction became “super” - Free Speech Blog: Phillips' first anonymous super injunction came about in February 2009, which included prevention of reporting the proceedings. For legal reasons, she couldn't say much more. Then came Trafigura, Terry and many more. .... post originally appeared on the Index on Censorship Free Speech Blog and is reproduced with permission and thanks. It was also published on Judith Townend's By Privacy injunction hearings: not 'super' but anonymous | media law ...

[Editors Weblog] Privacy injunctions and super-injunctions spark a ... - Editors Weblog: has been widely discussed in the UK since late 2009 when the oil-trading firm Trafigura wanted to restrict the Guardian from publishing a report relating to the waste dumping scandal in Cote d'Ivoire. Neither the image, editorial or article were published online in order to prevent the newspaper being accused of distributing outside of Scotland, Journalism.co.uk added.

[Lawyer News & Information] Superinjunctions report – as it unfolded | Lawyer News & Information: Lord Neuberger’s report, and the emphasis on “open justice”, will help to ensure proper scrutiny in the granting of super-injunctions, and to prevent inappropriate court decisions (such as Trafigura) where the public interest is clearly compromised. But we should beware further calls for liberalising the rules on injunctions, which are often little more than self-serving pleas by tabloid journalists wishing to expose the private lives of celebrities in order to boost newspaper sales.”

[Panopticon Blog] SOME REFLECTIONS ON SUPER-INJUNCTIONS AND ... - Panopticon Blog: Lords Neuberger and Judge both suggested on Friday that, to the extent that there are differential effects on newspapers as compared to Twitter, that difference is justified. To a degree, they are correct: rightly or wrongly, we tend to expect more noble and sophisticated ethics from mature brands of journalism than we do from little-known blogs, and applicants no doubt suffer incremental damage from the public seeing matters reported in print headlines or on major news websites which they would otherwise have had to seek out on Twitter.

[Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk] Superinjunctions: both the Daily Star Sunday and Index on ...: The DS Sunday, Britain's most irrelevant red-top, casts itself as a participant in some high-minded .In practice, both the PCC (as its director pointed out in his interview with me) and the judges have been working out ways to protect privacy while protecting press freedom.

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