“An injunction obtained in representative proceedings was binding on all persons represented in the claim, but a judge was entitled, in the exercise of his discretion, to refuse to frame the order in terms which would make it enforceable by or against persons who were not parties to the claim.”
WLR Daily, 29th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Coventry City Council v O and others [2011] EWCA Civ 729; [2011] WLR (D) 205
“Where foster parents issued a notice of intention to adopt a child they were fostering, the local authority retained the power to remove the child from the foster parents’ home to the home either of other foster parents or of prospective adopters, under section 38 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.”
WLR Daily, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Lawyers representing the work colleague with whom former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred Goodwin had an affair has filed an appeal against a High Court judge’s decision that although the media must not identify her by name they could give her job description.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith has insisted he was right to take out a super-injunction after private e-mails were hacked and passed to newspapers.”
BBC News, 14th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland could not have expected to keep an alleged affair with a colleague concealed by the use of privacy injunctions because the nature of his job meant there was a public interest in his relationships, a judge has said.”
The Guardian, 9th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, have asked parliament to examine whether the law and the courts have established an appropriate balance between the rights to privacy and freedom of expression in the wake of the celebrity injunction crisis.”
The Guardian, 9th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, have asked parliament to examine whether the law and the courts have established an appropriate balance between the rights to privacy and freedom of expression in the wake of the celebrity injunction crisis.”
The Guardian, 9th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A High Court judge has refused to lift an order banning journalists naming a woman with whom former bank boss Sir Fred Goodwin had a relationship.”
BBC News, 9th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Users of Twitter could face legal action for contempt of court if they use the microblogging website to breach privacy injunctions, the Attorney General has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Daily Mail published apparently false details about the anonymous woman who is the subject of a High Court gagging order, some of which helped it make the case that the injunction was against the public interest, the High Court has heard.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd June 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The High Court had jurisdiction to intervene to enforce an arbitration agreement even where no arbitration had commenced and none was intended to be commenced. Whether or not the court would assist a claimant seeking to have a dispute resolved in accordance with the arbitration agreement was a matter of discretion, but it would be contrary to principle for the court to refuse to grant an anti-suit injunction to the claimant under those circumstances as a matter of jurisdiction.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The Sun has applied to partially lift the gagging order obtained by former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, Sir Fred Goodwin, arguing that ‘sunlight should be shed’ on the crisis that left the bank majority-owned by UK taxpayers.”
The Guardian, 1st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Court 10 at the Royal Courts of Justice has had more visitors than usual in the past month as the press fights back against what it perceives as encroaching privacy laws.”
The Lawyer, 30th May 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Lawyers representing a woman who allegedly had a sexual relationship with former bank boss Sir Fred Goodwin failed today in an attempt to persuade a judge to launch contempt proceedings against a national newspaper.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Tim Bratton blogs in a personal capacity – and his latest post: One for the students: so, you want to work at Big Law? Is a good one for law students, particularly.
David Allen Green, solicitor, is the author of the Jack of Kent blog and is the legal correspondent at The New Statesman. Carl Gardner is an ex-government lawyer and is the author of the Head of Legal blog.”
Charon QC, 26th May 2011
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“Twitter will notify its users before handing their personal information to UK authorities seeking to prosecute them over alleged breaches of privacy injunctions, a senior executive at the company said on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The judge who has allowed a financier to bring a secret libel suit against his own sister-in-law defended his decision to make all the parties anonymous on Wednesday, in the wake of the uproar over superinjunctions and the outing of footballer Ryan Giggs in defiance of court orders.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“That’s why it should be a matter for parliament, not a running battle between the media and the courts.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Human Rights Act should be amended urgently to end the ‘shambles’ of judges gagging newspapers over the private lives of celebrities, the former head of the press watchdog says today (24 May).”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Related link: Lord Wakeham on the Human Rights Act – the letter in full
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