Thursday, April 07, 2011

Thou shalt not...

First there was the injunction, which was a court order forbidding you from doing something on pain of imprisonment.  Then came the super-injunction, which not only forbad you from doing something, but also forbad you from publishing the fact that the injunction existed.  But there was a loophole - MPs speaking in Parliament are protected by parliamentary privilege and could therefore disclose that a super injunction existed without fear of punishment, so now we apparently have the hyper injunction which, in addition to all the above, also forbids you from discussing the matter with your MP.  Not surprisingly Parliament takes a dim view of this, and it will almost certainly eventually have to be sorted out by the Supreme Court.

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