List of privacy injunction cases in English law
This article lists cases in English law where anonymised privacy injunctions have been obtained. As super-injunctions can also be considered a type of anonymised privacy injunction they have also been included below.
Anonymised privacy injunctions
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Case | Notes |
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AMM v HXW[1] | Also known as Clarkson v Hall after broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson voluntarily lifted the injunction. |
ASG v GSA[2] | Involves a well known person who had an adulterous relationship |
CBL v Person Unknown[2] | Beyond the fact that it exists no information is known about this injunction.[3] |
CDE & FGH v Mirror Group Newspapers and LMN[4] | A misuse of private information claim |
Christoper Hutcheson (previously known as KGM) v News Group Newspapers[5] | Concerned the private life of Christoper Hutcheson. |
ETK v News Group Newspapers Ltd | An entertainment actor's affair. |
Goldsmith v BCD | Hacking of Zac Goldsmith's e-mails. |
Gray v UVW | Urgent interim injunction granted restraining the defendant from publishing confidential information.[6] |
JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd | Relates to a sportsman.[6] |
KJH v HGF[7] | Blackmail case. |
LOD v News Group Newspapers Ltd[2] | Nothing beyond the case name is known. Judgment was ordered on 19/09/2008.[6] |
MNB v News Group | Concerned the private life of banker Fred Goodwin. Breached by John Hemming MP using Parliamentary Privilege. |
MJN v News Group Newspapers Ltd | Alleged affair of a Premiership footballer. |
NEJ v Wood | Concerns an alleged relationship between Helen Wood and a well-known actor |
OPQ v BJM[8] | Blackmail case.[8] |
POI v Lina | Blackmail case |
PJS v News Group Newspapers | Case is currently before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to decide whether to continue injunction |
QWE v SDF, GHJ and RTY[9] | Blackmail regarding a sexual relationship[9] |
RJA v AJR[2] | Misuse of private information and harassment.[2] |
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP (No. 2) | Threat of violence to man formerly subject to a control order.[6] |
STU v UVW and XYZ[10] | A case record exists on Bailii but no facts are included |
TSE and ELP v News Group Newspapers[2] | Involves a footballer[2] |
TUV v Persons Unknown[2] | Information stolen from electronic devices.[2] |
VAM v Persons Unknown[2] | Further information about this injunction is not known.[2] |
WER v REW[2] | Chris Hutcheson took out an injunction against a website wishing to prevent details of his private life being made public |
WXY v Henry Gewanter[2] | Breach of confidence and misuse of private information.[11] |
XJA v News Group Newspapers Ltd | Involves a "well known person".[2] |
YYZ v YVR[2] | Involes a well known person.[2] |
ZAM v CFW & TFW[12] | Interim injunction to prevent publication of very serious allegation including criminal conduct.[2] |
ZXC v BNM[2] | An England footballer has an injunction in place to prevent the misuse of private information about him.[13] |
Z v Persons Unknown[2] | Unreported case[2] |
Lifetime privacy injunctions
Lifetime privacy injunctions prevent the publication of a new identity.
Case | Details |
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Carr v News Group Newspapers Ltd | Granted to Maxine Carr following the Soham murders |
Venables v News Group Newspapers | Granted to killers of James Bulger |
X (a woman formerly known as Mary Bell and Y v O'Brien) | Granted to child killer Mary Bell |
Super-injunctions
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The following cases are super-injunctions where the existence of the injunction itself was also secret:
Case | Method of Revelation |
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RJW v Guardian News and Media Ltd (Trafigura) | Paul Farrelly, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, had tabled a parliamentary question revealing the existence of the injunction.[14] |
Ntuli v Donald | A super-injunction was granted but later dischargd.[15] |
DFT v TFD | A super-injunction was granted but later discontinued.[16] |
Terry v Persons Unknown | Application for a super-injunction was rejected.[17] |
CTB v News Group Newspapers | Revealed by John Hemming MP using Parliamentary privilege.[18] |
Andrew Marr and anonymous | Unreported case. Issued in 2008, its existence was revealed by Andrew Marr in a 2011 interview.[19] |
References
- ↑ AMM -v- HXW; QBD 7 Oct 2010 | swarb.co.uk
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Superinjunctions, gagging orders and injunctions: the full list | Siobhain Butterworth & Maya Wolfe-Robinson | Law | theguardian.com
- ↑ Privacy injunction hearings: not ‘super’ but anonymous | Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism Blog
- ↑ A mass outbreak of anonymity: CDE and FGH v MGN and LMN - RPC Data and Privacy Law
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/law/datablog/2011/aug/05/superinjunctions-gagging-orders- injunctions-list
- 1 2 3 4 http://www.theguardian.com/law/datablog/2011/aug/05/superinjunctions-gagging-orders-injunctions-list
- ↑ KJH v HGF - 5RB
- 1 2 http://www.5rb.com/case/opq-v-bjm-cjm/
- 1 2 High Court passes two new privacy injunctions - Mirror Online
- ↑ http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2011/3133.html
- ↑ http://onebrickcourt.com/news.aspx?menu=main&pageid=44&newsid=544M
- ↑ ZAM v CFW & Anor [2011] EWHC 476 (QB) (07 March 2011)
- ↑ England player wins 'gagging order' | News in brief | London Evening Standard
- ↑ Trafigura: anatomy of a super-injunction | Media | The Guardian
- ↑ Super-injunctions - an update - RPC Data and Privacy Law
- ↑ Mlfoe - Dft V. Tfd
- ↑ John Terry: The boot on the other foot? | Steeles Law Solicitors | Norwich, Norfolk, London
- ↑ Ryan Giggs super-injunction: John Hemming brought an end to the farce | Daily Mail Online
- ↑ Ian Hislop attacks Andrew Marr over super injunction - Telegraph
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