Day: 7 June 2011

Over the past few weeks the media has given its readers a consistently slanted and inaccurate picture of the nature of privacy injunctions and the interests which they protect.  The impact of this reporting on public opinion is hard to gauge.   The constant false statements about “super-injunctions” and the insinuation that “rich celebrities” are seeking to hide systematic wrongdoing is bound to have  some impact on public opinion.   An attempt to assess the current state of public opinion on these issues was made last week by the “Independent”.  On 1 June 2011 it reported the result of a “ComRes” opinion poll under the headline “Judges have gone too far with gagging orders, says British public“.   Continue reading