{"id":9140,"date":"2011-03-10T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9140"},"modified":"2011-03-10T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:36:47","slug":"is-the-uk-a-democracy-whilst-fred-goodwin-gets-a-super-injunction-and-we-have-our-libel-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/10\/is-the-uk-a-democracy-whilst-fred-goodwin-gets-a-super-injunction-and-we-have-our-libel-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the UK a democracy whilst Fred Goodwin gets a super injunction and we have our libel laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Guardian reports very recentl<\/a>y:<\/p>\n

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The controversial former bank chief Sir Fred Goodwin<\/a> is the latest high profile figure to obtain a superinjunction, it has emerged.<\/p>\n

The existence of the measure \u2014 which bans the press from reporting that an injunction has been obtained \u2014 can be revealed after a backbench Liberal Democrat, John Hemming, raised the issue in the Commons.<\/p>\n

\"In a secret hearing this week Fred Goodwin has obtained a superinjunction preventing him being identified as a banker,\" said Hemming, the MP for Birmingham Yardley.<\/p>\n

Hemming, who used parliamentary privilege to avoid the legal ban on reporting the use of superinjunctions, asked: \"Will the government have a debate or a statement on freedom of speech and whether there's one rule for the rich like Fred Goodwin and one rule for the poor?\"<\/p>\n

News that Goodwin has obtained a superinjunction \u2014 over issues that cannot be reported \u2014 has raised further questions about the use of the measures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let's be clear - we don't really know what the super injunction was about.<\/p>\n

What we do know is the rich can gag the press using such injunctions and libel laws.<\/p>\n

And that undermines democracy.<\/p>\n

Super injunctions must go and libel laws need radical reform.<\/p>\n

Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Guardian reports very recently: The controversial former bank chief Sir Fred Goodwin is the latest high profile figure to obtain a superinjunction, it
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