Carl Gardner
May 26, 2011
I appeared on AlJazeera’s Inside Story on Tuesday, to discuss “superinjunctions” – well, anonymous injunctions in fact – with Martin Bentham of the Standard and Stephen Murdoch of Cambridge University. The programme’s now available on the web.
Shiulie Ghosh introduces […]
Carl Gardner
May 25, 2011
Jon Worth (surely Britain’s leading blogger on EU affairs) has the story that it’s now illegal to sell Marmite in Denmark. The Danish embassy has been anxious to stress that Marmite is not banned, but that is, I’m […]
Carl Gardner
May 23, 2011
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 […]
Carl Gardner
May 16, 2011
The IMF boss and front-runner to be the French Socialist Party’s presidential candidate next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been refused bail by a court in New York, according to the BBC. As has been widely reported he’s facing a […]
Carl Gardner
May 16, 2011
I took part in Sunday Sequence on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday, discussing privacy law with Roy Greenslade, who’s professor of journalism at City University as well as being a former newspaper editor, and Max Clifford. The discussion […]
Carl Gardner
May 10, 2011
Max Mosley has lost his case in the European Court of Human Rights, in which he claimed that the UK breached his right to respect for private life under article 8 of the ECHR by failing to impose a legal […]
Carl Gardner
May 9, 2011
The BBC has reported that someone on Twitter has purported to “out” a number of celebrities who have supposedly obtained “superinjunctions” to protect their privacy.
It’s unlikely of course that all of them are “superinjunctions” at all, which are injunctions […]
Carl Gardner
May 6, 2011
In our latest Without Prejudice podcast, the editor of Legal Week Alex Novarese joins Charon QC, David Allen Green and me to discuss:
- the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden
- the inquest into the death of […]
Carl Gardner
April 27, 2011
Yesterday afternoon there was speculation that John Hemming MP was planning to “break a superinjunction” in the House under cover of Parliamentary privilege.
Then, not long after 5 o’clock, John Hemming made a point of order in the Commons [update: […]
Carl Gardner
April 22, 2011
In Without Prejudice this week, Dr Evan Harris joins Charon QC, David Allen Green and me to discuss the “Twitter Joke” case in which Paul Chambers is appealing; David Cameron’s comments on privacy law; the Digital […]