Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK A legal injunction which also prohibits any mention of its existence to the media or public.
Examples
“The result of all this—apart from enriching quite a few lawyers—is to cause this nation to be gripped by what can only be described as super-injunction fever.”
The Wall Street Journal: What's So Super About Super Injunctions?
“Conservative MP for Richmond Park Zac Goldsmith took out a so-called super-injunction to prevent the publication of e-mails that had been obtained by hackers and passed to newspapers.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The ruling is not a so-called "super-injunction", meaning newspapers are not prevented from reporting the existence of the order.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The existing laws can't: the super-injunction scandals of last spring proved that.”
The Guardian: Will the Leveson inquiry kill celebrity magazines?
“The MP, who has previously obtained a super-injunction preventing the publication of private emails which had been leaked to the press, told a session of the joint Commons and Lords Committee on privacy and injunctions that such newspapers should be allowed to go to the wall.”
The Guardian: Zac Goldsmith criticised over concentration camp comparison
“**********This anonymous tweeter took it upon themselves to test the elastic limits of privacy and libel law by speculatively naming those who've allegedly joined the super-injunction club.”
The Guardian: Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
“The company overreached itself and was forced to withdraw, when it attempted to enforce a so-called "super-injunction" against the Guardian, gagging it from reporting proceedings in the British parliament.”
The Guardian: Trafigura faces criminal charges over attempt to offload toxic waste
“Tweets about super-injunction footballer spike after attempts to gag Twitter Premiership footballer sues Twitter after details of super-injunction were published Max Clifford: Ryan Giggs 'affair' may never have come out without injunction Mr Men Google doodles celebrate 76th birthday of creator Roger Hargreaves”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“MP John Hemming named the star in Parliament as the footballer who had used a super-injunction to hide an alleged affair, after Mr Giggs' name had been widely aired on Twitter.”
“He is somewhat right: the most high-profile super-injunction case was the”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘super-injunction’.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for super-injunction.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.