The never-published High Court order Russell Brand won in 2015: a lifelong gag on his accuser, Sylvie Berki, that bars her even from speaking to the police.
Superinjunctions were popular at the time but are less used now. Case in point with the current proceedings brought by a Very Famous Person who wishes to restrain two news orgs from reporting serious allegations about him from several women (and from them coming forward otherwise), on the basis that he will commit suicide if it becomes public and this is a breach of his human right to life.
Back in the 2010s this would be a superinjunction with no-one even allowed to mention there is a case before the court, and the Very Famous Person even tried to supress that the news orgs in question were the Guardian and ITN, but he was refused that, and indeed his attempt at an injunction was denied on tuesday, on the basis that his mental health was up to the NHS which has him in secure detention, not up to the news media. He was given leave to appeal but unless that goes forward the stories will run.
Superinjunctions were popular at the time but are less used now. Case in point with the current proceedings brought by a Very Famous Person who wishes to restrain two news orgs from reporting serious allegations about him from several women (and from them coming forward otherwise), on the basis that he will commit suicide if it becomes public and this is a breach of his human right to life.
Back in the 2010s this would be a superinjunction with no-one even allowed to mention there is a case before the court, and the Very Famous Person even tried to supress that the news orgs in question were the Guardian and ITN, but he was refused that, and indeed his attempt at an injunction was denied on tuesday, on the basis that his mental health was up to the NHS which has him in secure detention, not up to the news media. He was given leave to appeal but unless that goes forward the stories will run.
So things have changed a bit.