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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Roy Greenslade

What are these super-injunctions all about?

Hardly a day goes by without another so-called super-injunction being granted to an allegedly philandering celebrity figure. The appeal court issued one yesterday on behalf of a married man "in the entertainment business" who is supposed to have had an affair with a married woman.

But what are super-injunctions? Who invented the term? How many have been granted? Why are editors so upset by them? For the answers, see my London Evening Standard column today. And I hope to write a follow-up piece in tomorrow's G2.

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