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Newspapers plan new bid to unmask superinjunction footballer
http://www.thejournal.ie/newspapers-...41612-May2011/
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BRITAIN’S NEWSPAPERS ARE set to return to the High Court in London today in a fresh bid to unmask the footballer behind a superinjunction barring them from publishing details of an alleged affair.
The new attempt to have the gag lifted follows the decision of a Scottish Sunday tabloid newspaper to print a photograph of the footballer in question on its front page – only barely concealing his face, and making it clear that the footballer was the one at the centre of the row.
Within hours of the paper being published, users were circulating photographs of its front page online – further undermining the effect of the gag.
Today, Sky News reports, the newspapers are expected to return to the courts arguing that the publication of the details in a neighbouring jurisdiction has conclusively undermined the credibility of the superinjunction.
BBC News adds that the UK’s attorney general is not considering legal action against the Sunday newspaper in question, giving further credence to the idea that the injunction is simply now unworkable.
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