Super injunction forum who is it

Otherwise it would just be a bog standard ordinary injunction. How difficult is that to understand? I then repeat the rumour here. How do the STW mods know to remove it?

What if I was a journalist on a local paper and submitted the story to my editor? How would he know not to publish it? The implications of super-injunctions are starting to scare me a bit. No criticism of the STW stance here, more dumbfounded that something apparently unrelated to STW seems to be having such a fundamental impact on the site.

I mean, are forum publishers going to start shutting down to avoid putting themselves in the line of fire, totally accidentally? And it will be illegal to have even slightly bad thoughts about the person concerned. But only if they take out an injunction, obviously. Wayne Rooney has been outed with wrinkly sex professionals a few times, and it soon blows over. If you have a look on caughtoffside. Would SKY tv or whoever is showing it have to mute the crowd noise?! See what I mean? How does an STW mod or the editor of the Sun know which names to delete?

I find the paradox amusing. A super-injunction is an instrument of English law that prevents the publishing of any details from an ongoing legal case, including the existence of the case itself.

Had a super-injunction been placed over the case, it could not have mentioned the matter at all, let alone address the situation on its front page as it did on 24 October. Former Manchester United footballer and current Wales manager Ryan Giggs famously sought an injunction of this type to protect his identity over an alleged affair with a reality TV contestant, only to have his name mentioned in connection with the matter by Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming.

In May , he revealed Giggs' name in the House of Commons under the protection of parliamentary privilege. Mr Hemming was addressing the problem of Twitter users breaking the terms of the injunction.

This arises when the claimant becomes aware that someone is offering usually for money private information about him: for example, cases which are surprisingly common of intimate photographs stolen from cameras or laptops. There is a rule — which was said to have been broken in the Terry case — that the claimant must notify any newspaper which he knows to be interested in the information of the injunction application, to give it an opportunity to object.

This is, of course, part of the problem — the courts do not collect any statistics on this or any other kind of application. It is clear that they should so that the debate can be properly informed. The announcement is here. Legal , Privacy. Inforrm can be contacted by email inforrmeditorial gmail. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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