There were no hearings of appeals relating to privacy injunctions.
All the Ministry of Justice says about the injunction application in question is that it was “sought by a male” and was “on notice”. The application was in the case of PNM v Times Newspapers ([2013] EWHC 3177 (QB)) and was brought by an individual who was arrested, but not charged for serious sexual offences. There is a 5RB case note about this decision. An appeal to the Court of Appeal is pending.
The Ministry of Justice noted one, unsuccessful application to continue a privacy injunction during the same period.
When the last set of statistics were released (for January to June 2013) we had a post by Nick Wilcox entitled “The Last Gasp of the Super-Injunction“. Noting that there were 6 successful privacy injunction applications in that period (and no “super-injunctions”) he noted that, although “super-injunctions” were an almost extinct species, ‘non-super’ privacy injunctions remained alive and kicking In the light of the statistics for the last 6 months, that conclusion is now in some doubt.
The last successful privacy injunction against the media appears to be that in Rocknroll v News Group Newspapers Ltd ([2013] EWHC 24 (Ch)) in January 2013 and the last “non-media” privacy injunction that in the case of AVB v TDD ([2013] EWHC 1705 (QB)) on 20 June 2013.