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U.K. Prime Minister Wades Into Privacy Debate as Injunction Controversy Heats Up






Suzi Ring All Articles

Legal Week

May 24, 2011

Privacy law has continued to dominate the headlines, with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday wading into the row about the sustainability of privacy injunctions after Twitter users continued to flout court orders over the weekend.

Speaking on ITV's " Daybreak" program Monday morning Cameron called for privacy laws to be reviewed. He described current laws affecting newspapers as " unsustainable" and said Parliament was " going to have to take some time out to really have a think about this."

His words came after a weekend that saw injunctions continue to dominate the attention of newspapers and social networking sites like Twitter, as the debate intensified about the justification for such privacy orders and their applicability in today's era of digital media.

On Sunday, a Scottish newspaper chose to flout the injunction by publishing a barely concealed picture of a footballer who has taken out an injunction over his alleged affair with former " Big Brother" contestant Imogen Thomas. It is unclear the extent, if any, to which an injunction issued in England applies to Scotland.

The Sun newspaper on Monday submitted an application to challenge the existing Imogen Thomas injunction on the basis of the publication in Scotland.

There have also been newspaper reports that Attorney General Dominic Grieve has been asked to consider a prosecution following an alleged breach of an injunction by a journalist on Twitter concerning another footballer in the case known as TSE against News Group Newspapers.

However, Mr Justice Tugendhat on Monday said: " I have not received any request to refer to the attorney general in this case in which the claimant is referred to as TSE, and I have not referred it to him."

The frenzied debate on social media sites had already been stoked on Friday when it emerged that a claimant identified as CTB had launched a High Court action against Twitter and a number of its users in relation to the reporting of an injunction.

The action is an attempt to force the social media site to disclose details of a number of Twitter users thought to be behind the publication of confidential information. The case has further underlined claims that privacy laws are out of step with the realities of social media given the challenge of forcing the California-based company to comply with a disclosure order from an English court.

The latest developments also come after the committee charged with reviewing the use of superinjunctions on Friday called for the media to have advance notice of privacy orders and for the Government to monitor the use of injunctions.

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