Posts Tagged ‘injunction’

Tiger Woods wins UK injunction

December 11th, 2009

Golfer Tiger Woods has gained an injunction from an English court against further reporting of his private life. Woods, 33 has been in the spotlight because of revalations of extra-marital affairs. Read more here (http://news NULL.bbc NULL.co NULL.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8408760 NULL.stm)

MPs and campaigners call for ban on super injunctions

October 21st, 2009

Index on Censorship and English PEN today welcomed MPs’ robust response in this afternoon’s adjournment debate to law firm Carter-Ruck’s challenge to Parliamentary reporting, and called on them to strengthen the public’s right to information by banning the use of so-called “super injunctions” except in extreme circumstances.
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The ultimate assault on free speech

October 19th, 2009

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Law firm Carter-Ruck’s super-injunction to attempt to stop the reporting of a question on the Trafigura affair in Parliament has galvanised MPs and other bodies to take up the fight for freedom of expression. John Kampfner reports
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Privacy: courts do not keep records of injunction

October 16th, 2009

An answer to a parliamentary question by Paul Farrelly MP has revealed that the high court does not keep a record of the number of injunctions granted against the press. In the current edition of The Economist, media lawyer Mark Stephens says he estimates that between 200 and 300 injunction are in action at any one time. Read more here (http://www NULL.publications NULL.parliament NULL.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091015/text/91015w0005 NULL.htm#09101544000050)

Carter-Ruck backs down on Guardian parliamentary reporting

October 13th, 2009

royal courtsIndex on Censorship has learned that law firm Carter-Ruck has backed down in an attempt to stop media (http://www NULL.guardian NULL.co NULL.uk/media/2009/oct/13/guardian-court-parliament-reporting-gag) from reporting on a parliamentary question (http://www NULL.publications NULL.parliament NULL.uk/cgi-bin/newhtml_hl?DB=semukparl&STEMMER=en&WORDS=trafigura&ALL=trafigura&ANY=&PHRASE=&CATEGORIES=&SIMPLE=&SPEAKER=&COLOUR=red&STYLE=s&ANCHOR=muscat_highlighter_first_match&URL=/pa/cm200809/cmordbk2/91013o02 NULL.htm#muscat_highlighter_first_match) concerning a previous injunction. The gag had caused outrage on the Internet, with many Twitter users defying the injunction to post information on the case.

Update: Read the letter Index on Censorship sent to the courts in support of the Guardian here (http://blog NULL.indexoncensorship NULL.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Index_guardian_letter NULL.pdf)

Guardian loses legal challenge against Barclays gagging order

March 19th, 2009

The Guardian has lost a high court challenge to lift an emergency gagging order imposed on the publication of Barclays bank documents alleged to detail huge tax avoidance schemes. (more…)

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