https://meejalaw.com News, resources & discussion for digital publishers Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:17:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://meejalaw.com/super-injunctions/#comment-1818 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:32:40 +0000 https://meejalaw.com/?page_id=898#comment-1818 […] to https://meejalaw.com/super-injunctions the term, superinjunction, came into existence in 2009 after a major media outlet reported jokingly […]

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]]> https://meejalaw.com/super-injunctions/#comment-49 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:41:04 +0000 https://meejalaw.com/?page_id=898#comment-49 […] its definition of a super injunction, or acknowledged the complexities of this phrase. As I have explained elsewhere, there is a distinction between an anonymous privacy injunction and a secret ‘super’ […]

]]> https://meejalaw.com/super-injunctions/#comment-48 Tue, 24 May 2011 09:33:22 +0000 https://meejalaw.com/?page_id=898#comment-48 Every 2nd year law student knows the maxims of equity, or at least they know the ones that count here. “He who comes to equity must come with clean hands” how do adulterers have these metaphorical clean hands? Equity acts in personam. Law in rem. That makes the concept of injunctions “against persons unknown” or contra mundum (against the world) a nonsense. Since some of our judges firmly believe that our silly antiquated secrecy culture can be exported let them think on this one. A certain politician in a land far far away gets annoyed at bad press he reads in our media. He pops down to the court in his capaital city and gets his judges to injunct contra mundum. Do our judges accept that this injunction is enforecable here?

]]> https://meejalaw.com/super-injunctions/#comment-47 Mon, 23 May 2011 21:00:46 +0000 https://meejalaw.com/?page_id=898#comment-47 […] Super injunctions | media law & ethics An updating page about the English court orders known as “super injunctions”. Please contact jt.townend@gmail.com with more detail about the history of these orders. (tags: law) […]

]]> https://meejalaw.com/super-injunctions/#comment-46 Fri, 13 May 2011 03:36:44 +0000 https://meejalaw.com/?page_id=898#comment-46 […] the existence of the gagging order is itself a breach, likening it to the superinjunctions currently stirring opinion and grabbing column space in the […]

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