{"id":33167,"date":"2012-02-21T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33167"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T14:37:12","slug":"ryan-giggs-injunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33167","title":{"rendered":"UK: Ryan Giggs legally named as footballer behind Imogen Thomas &#8216;affair&#8217; injunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United&#8217;s\u00a0Ryan Giggs\u00a0has <a title=\"Guardian - Ryan Giggs named in court for first time as footballer behind injunction \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2012\/feb\/21\/ryan-giggs-named-court-injunction?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">been named<\/a>\u00a0in court for the first time as the Premier League footballer with a high-profile privacy injunction against\u00a0the Sun. At a hearing at the high court today, Giggs agreed\u00a0to lift the anonymity part of the injunction that he brought\u00a0in April 2011 to prevent the tabloid from publishing claims he had an extra-marital affair with model Imogen Thomas. Yet the footballer was widely identified on Twitter and was named in the Commons by Lib Dem MP John Hemming last May.\u00a0The footballer\u00a0is trying to\u00a0<a title=\"BBC - Ryan Giggs can be legally named as 'affair' footballer \" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-17114875\" target=\"_blank\">claim damages<\/a> for distress from the Sun &#8212; alleging the paper breached his right to privacy &#8212; as well as for\u00a0subsequent re-publication of information in other newspapers and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United&#8217;s\u00a0Ryan Giggs\u00a0has been named\u00a0in court for the first time as the Premier League footballer with a high-profile privacy injunction against\u00a0the Sun. At a hearing at the high court today, Giggs agreed\u00a0to lift the anonymity part of the injunction that he brought\u00a0in April 2011 to prevent the tabloid from publishing claims he had an extra-marital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,21],"tags":[4341,459,7358,727,269,3429,631,7350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33173,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33167\/revisions\/33173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}