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Judith Townend
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Privacy injunction hearings: not 'super' but anonymous
Limited information is available about privacy injunction hearings in British courts but sometimes the press cries 'super injunction' when it's simply not. A super injunction is one whose very existence cannot be reported - as in the cases involving Trafigura (2009) and Terry (2010). As media...
Video: Reframing Libel
Last year, Lord Lester introduced his defamation reform bill into the House of Lords, following months of public and media pressure and a high-profile libel reform campaign led by Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science. But what do legal practitioners and theorists think abou...