Who is footballer injunction rumours 2011

Thomas and the Premiership player met four times between September and December last year, according to the footballer's evidence. She then contacted him by text in March, which led him to conclude she was thinking of selling her story, according to the judge's summary. The footballer agreed to meet her "in a hotel where he was staying" in April. She asked to see him again shortly afterwards, to which "he agreed with reluctance" and provided her with some football tickets.

The player claimed that on 13 April, he texted Thomas to say he might be willing to offer her some money after all. The next day, an account of a sexual relationship between Thomas and an unidentified footballer appeared in the Sun, prompting the request for an injunction to stop his identity being revealed. Thomas said she was "stunned" by how she had been portrayed in the ruling, and her legal team said she denied asking for money. Reading from a statement, she said: "Yet again my name and reputation have been trashed while the man I had a relationship with is able to hide.

What's more I can't even defend myself because I have been gagged. If this is the way privacy injunctions are supposed to work there is something seriously wrong with the law. The Sun sought to have the gagging order lifted, arguing that Thomas's right to freedom of expression, covered by article 10 of the European convention on human rights, outweighed the footballer's right to remain nameless under article 8, the right to privacy.

A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been identified in Parliament as Ryan Giggs. Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75, Twitter users who had named the player.

The High Court has again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted. It rejected two attempts on Monday to overturn the ban, the first after a Scottish paper named the footballer on Sunday, and the second after Mr Hemming's action.

The footballer's lawyers have also obtained a High Court order asking Twitter to reveal details of users who had revealed his identity after thousands named him. Parliamentary privilege protects MPs and peers from prosecution for statements made in the House of Commons or House of Lords. House of Commons speaker John Bercow interrupted the MP saying: "Let me just say to the honourable gentleman, I know he's already done it, but occasions such as this are occasions for raising the issues of principle involved, not seeking to flout for whatever purpose.

John Whittingdale, Conservative chairman of the Commons culture committee, said he "regretted" Mr Hemming's use of parliamentary privilege to name Mr Giggs. Mr Justice Eady said when rejecting a second application - the first of Monday's attempts - by Sun publisher News Group Newspapers to discharge the privacy injunction, that the court's duty "remains to try and protect the claimant, and particularly his family, from intrusion and harassment so long as it can".

Hell breaks loose. For future reference, England, if you want people on Twitter not to talk about something, the absolute worst thing you could do is sue Twitter in order to gag their users. This Twitter suit is just latest shakeup over super-injunction legislation this year. In April, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop lobbied successfully for the publication of an interview with BBC journalist Andrew Marr that revealed Marr's extramarital affairs and, more scandalously, the extent to which he went to cover up the details.

It's scandalous because Marr harshly and hypocritically covered politicians doing the exact same thing. Hemming has been working on updating injunction laws declaring how this year's rash of scandals, "shows the utter absurdity of what is being done in the courts. It ignores the way that modern communication works. Many critics of the current super-injunction laws criticize the members of Parliament lobbying for new regulations to be placed on social media.

They liken the redaction of names and details to government-sponsored censorship, and are launching widespread campaigns to exploit loopholes, reports to the Daily Mail, are Catching on to the trend, Facebook and Twitter users have noticed that the laws are outdated and are exploiting them. Newspapers in the U. Yesterday, the Scottish newspaper Sunday Herald found a loophole in injunction laws and legally published a photo of Giggs with a slim black line that read "Censored" obscuring his eyes.