Paul Cahalan reports: Lawyers and media specialists last night called on the courts to take action to enforce injunctions broken over the internet after another social media user purported to publish details of celebrity gagging orders. A newly created Twitter account posted details of 13 alleged injunctions early yesterday morning, directing users to a website…
Category: Breaches
UK: Hemming does his worst
Carl Gardner writes: As I think readers will surely know by now, John Hemming MP used Parliamentary privilege today to name the footballer whose anonymity is protected in this privacy case by an injunction, which the High Court decided earlier today to maintain in force. […] There’s nothing wrong with the privacy law Parliament enacted…
Scottish newspaper identifies injunction footballer (update3)
Adam Gabbatt and Matthew Taylor report: The storm over the use of privacy injunctions to suppress publication of celebrity sexual indiscretions has escalated, with a Scottish newspaper revealing the identity of a footballer who allegedly had an affair with the model Imogen Thomas. […] The Scottish newspaper, which the Guardian cannot name for legal reasons,…
TV star is first to face jail over tweets after England footballer claims they breach injunction: Judge reports top journalist to Attorney-General
Robert Verkaik reports: A journalist on one of Britain’s most respected newspapers – who also appears on a widely-viewed BBC programme – could face a jail sentence after naming on Twitter a Premier League footballer who had taken out a privacy injunction. In the first case of its kind, lawyers for the soccer star have…