According to the tables published with most recent Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly Bulletin [xls] there were three applications for privacy injunctions in 2015, with two being granted and one refused. These official statistics may, however, underestimate the number of injunction applications.
The Ministry of Justice has published the Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly, October to December 2015 [pdf], which include Privacy Injunction Statistics for July to December 2015. They relate to applications for injunctions prohibiting the publication of private or confidential information made in the High Court or the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
According to the statistics, in the last six months there were two applications for new privacy injunctions, one application to continue an existing injunction and no applications for final injunctions or appeals to the Court of Appeal.
It is not clear whether these statistics are complete as Inforrm has previously identified four privacy injunction applications in 2015
- YXB v TNO on 19 February 2015, discharged for non-disclosure on 25 March 2015 (YXB v TNO (No 2) [2015] EWHC 826 (QB), see the Inforrm post).
- ZYT and BWE v Associated Newspapers [2015] EWHC 1162 (QB)) (see Inforrm case comment)
- AMC v News Group Newspapers([2015] EWHC 2361 (QB)) (see the Inforrm case comment)
- Dedicoat v News Group Newspapers, 27 October 2015.
As indicated, the statistics do not cover applications made in Courts outside London. It is clear from Bailii that there was at least one privacy injunction granted by the High Court in Manchester in 2015 (CHS v DNH [2015] EWHC 1214 (Ch)).
The Ministry of Justice statistics from August 2011 to December 2015 are set out in the Table below
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