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CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd

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to lift the injunction on 16 May 2011, Thomas commented: "Yet again my name and reputation have been trashed while the man I had a relationship with is able to hide. What's more I can't even defend myself because I have been gagged. If this is the way privacy injunctions are supposed to work there is
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on 23 May 2011: "It is rather unsustainable, this situation, where newspapers can't print something that clearly everybody else is talking about, but there's a difficulty here because the law is the law and the judges must interpret what the law is. What I've said in the past is, the danger is that
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in Europe, said that people who do "bad things" on the site would need to defend themselves under the laws of their own jurisdiction in the event of controversy, and that the site would hand over information about users to the authorities when it was legally required to do so.
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between 1995 and 2001, described the situation surrounding privacy injunctions as "a shambles", and proposed that Parliament should amend the law so that judges would be able to grant injunctions only where issues "impact on public authorities and the State".
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On 15 December 2011, Mr Justice Eady accepted that Thomas had not attempted to blackmail the footballer known as CTB, and suggested "There is no longer any point in maintaining the anonymity." The injunction preventing the naming of CTB remained in place.
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with the Twitter username "@unknownj". Webley denied being the source of the leak, and pointed to a web page written by a man named Michael Wheeler that he had read on the same day, which he said strongly hinted that Giggs was the person involved.
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commented: "I advise my clients that an injunction will not be effective. There have been too many examples of people breaking injunctions, getting round them by releasing material on to the Internet." He also suggested creating a statutory
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on its front page, with the word "CENSORED" covering his eyes. The paper added in its editorial column, "Today we identify the footballer whose name has been linked to a court superinjunction by thousands of postings on
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also stated: "We should point out immediately that we are not accusing the footballer concerned of any misdeed. Whether the allegations against him are true or not has no relevance to this debate. The issue is one of
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In delivering his ruling on the case on 16 May 2011, Eady argued: "It will rarely be the case that the privacy rights of an individual or of his family will have to yield in priority to what has been described in the
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to lift the injunction and allow CTB to be named. He argued that "the court's duty remains to try and protect the claimant, and particularly his family, from intrusion and harassment so long as it can."
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s owners News Group Newspapers, Richard Spearman said: "We didn't identify him. We didn't intend to identify him. On the damages for publication, it is dead in the water, this case." On 2 March 2012,
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were posted on Twitter and subsequently reported in a number of non-UK media sources. The allegations were repeatedly reposted online by other users, in a similar response to that of the
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On 21 February 2012, Ryan Giggs consented in the High Court to being named as the claimant known as CTB. Hugh Tomlinson, acting for Giggs, said that his client was claiming damages from
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as an advisor, action has been undertaken by the footballer against Twitter in an attempt to obtain information on some of the users involved in naming Giggs. The action is known as
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judgments are effectively writing a new law which is what parliament is meant to do." He added that the law should be reviewed to "catch up with how people consume media today".
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that had been mentioned in the media. This included the claim that the married footballer known as CTB had been involved in a seven-month extra-marital relationship with model
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was not sold in England or Wales, and added that the footballer's name and photo were exclusive to the print edition and had not been posted on the newspaper's website.
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On 23 May 2011, Justice Eady rejected News Group Newspapers' application to lift the injunction, despite pressure from the public and government. Later the same day,
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something seriously wrong with the law." Eady said that he could not "come to any final conclusion" on whether there had been an attempt at blackmail.
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as 'tittle-tattle about the activities of footballers' wives and girlfriends.'" He also argued that a balance had to be struck between
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itself." The Human Rights Act 1998 had been passed by the UK government, and incorporated the terms of the Convention into UK law.
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was published on 20 May 2011. It recommended that super-injunctions "can only be granted when they are strictly necessary".
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In response to criticism of previous super-injunctions in the UK media, a report by a committee of judges headed by
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was ready to take advantage of these prearranged meetings in order to be able to put forward the claim that it was
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by James Webley on 14 April 2011, the day of the initial granting of the injunction. Webley is a UK citizen from
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star" had met Thomas at luxury hotels during a "six-month fling", but did not name the footballer involved.
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had argued that the injunction was "futile" given the level of knowledge of the footballer's name.
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Sky News – Giggs Named In Commons As Footballer Identified On Twitter In Context Of Injunctions
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book had been openly on sale in Australia and other countries, despite being banned in the UK.
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for the subsequent re-publication of information in other newspapers and on the Internet. For
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to break court injunctions, arguing that the site was "not a place for reasoned discussion".
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It was stated in the ruling that Imogen Thomas had "at some stage engaged the services of Mr
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was created under the name "Billy Jones", and posted the alleged details of several of the
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of the alleged relationship between Giggs and Thomas may have been posted at 10:02 PM
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Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls, www.judiciary.gov.uk, 20 May 2011
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50,000 and £100,000, a claim she strongly denied. Following a failed attempt by
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in May 2011 was repeatedly reposted, leading to controversy over the right to
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Super-injunctions: Modern technology is beyond control, not out of control
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refused to grant relief to Giggs, ending the claim for damages.
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to name Ryan Giggs as the footballer CTB. A second attempt by
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The ruling also suggested that Imogen Thomas had attempted to
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to overturn the injunction later in the day was rejected by
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Super-Injunctions, Anonymised Injunctions and Open Justice
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and of a growing argument in favour of more restrictive
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On 23 May 2011, Eady refused a fresh application from
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ruling had no force in Scotland, unless copies of the
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newspaper, published a thinly-disguised photograph of
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published a story entitled "Footie star's affair with
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Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights
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Could Twitter become a threat to the justice system?
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editor Richard Walker indicated to the BBC that the
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Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights
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On 8 May 2011, an account on social networking site
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