[BB_Eye]

Originally Posted by Omah

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/864060-i...footballer-row

Don't expect much. Too many interested parties advising and funding the Conservatives.

Oh wait, forget I said that. *looks for a lawyer*

[Omah]

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...r-by-wikipedia

In a section entitled “Gagging order”, Wikipedia states “In May 2011, it was reported in non-UK media sources that Giggs was the identity of CTB in CTB v News Group Newspapers, a footballer who had applied for and obtained an anonymised gagging order in relation to an alleged extra-marital affair with model Imogen Thomas.”

The article continues “Giggs had subsequently sued the social networking site Twitter after his identity was revealed by a user who had revealed the identities of other individuals that had taken out so-called "superinjunctions.” It then tauntingly shares the remarks of a blogger for Forbes magazine, who recently wrote “Giggs has not heard of the Streisand effect", naughtily noting that mentions of his name had mushroomed after the Twitter suit had been reported in the news.

[Omah]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-2288063.html

The High Court refused to allow journalists to name a footballer who allegedly had a relationship with reality TV star Imogen Thomas.

Lawyers for The Sun asked for the controversial privacy ruling to be lifted after a Scottish newspaper named the star at the weekend and Prime Minister David Cameron said he knew his identity "like everybody else".

But Mr Justice Eady rejected a fresh application by News Group Newspapers to discharge the privacy injunction relating to the player, referred to in court as CTB, on the basis that to continue it would be "futile", given recent widespread publicity about his identity.

The judge said: "The court's duty remains to try and protect the claimant, and particularly his family, from intrusion and harassment so long as it can."

Jeez, the law is an ass .....

[Omah]

preventing details of his affair with Imogen Thomas

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1NBtXYq19

The footballer at the centre of the gagging order over his affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas was named today in the House of Commons as Ryan Giggs.

MP John Hemmings used parliamentary privilege to name the star saying 75,000 people had already outed him on Twitter adding it would be 'impracticable' to prison everyone on the website who had named him.

Speaker John Bercow leapt out of his seat after Mr Hemmings said the footballer's name to try and protect his identity.

Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, who has been campaigning on the issue, was telling parliament that it was not practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter followers who have already named the player when he uttered his name.

He named the star just minutes after the High Court refused to lift a ban on naming the sportsman who had a relationship with the Big Brother star.

Mr Bercow said: '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.'

Mr Hemming responded: 'The question is what the Government's view is on an enforceability of a law that clearly doesn't have public consent.'

Attorney General Dominic Grieve, who would be responsible for any prosecution for contempt, had earlier said during a Parliamentary debate on the injunction issue: 'It is our duty as parliamentarians to uphold the rule of law.'

Despite thousands of people naming him on Twitter, the Press still cannot name the star over his alleged affair with Big Brother's Imogen Thomas.

I believe they just have .....

[arista]

Ryan you dirty Git.
Did he give it to her Hard?

its on all TV news and Radio.


Ryan Giggs run to spain or something.

[arista]

Originally Posted by bobnot

Todays herald is funny if the dumbass hadnt of behaved like such a smacked arse about it nobody would have cared less and it would be forgotten about by now.

Yes the grey bits of hair
Ryan you dirty Git.

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13503847

Mr Hemming named him during an urgent Commons question on privacy orders.

Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.

Hahahahaha .....

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Omah

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13503847



Hahahahaha .....

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Omah

he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.

Really?

[arista]

Yes the Bubble Burst today by a LibDem MP

[BB_Eye]

Uneexpected smart move from a Lib Dem.

[Omah]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz1NEBu2dMe

Lib Dem Mr Hemming later said he identified married dad-of-two Giggs, 37, because his lawyers were targeting ordinary people simply for gossiping about him.

He added: "When he sued Twitter, it was clear what he was doing. He was going after the ordinary people who have been gossiping about him on Twitter."

Who does this Giggs think he is ?

He's just a footballer with a dick for brains .....

[Omah]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1NGZUEynE

The High Court refused for the third time to let journalists name the married star, alleged to have had a sexual relationship with the 28-year-old reality TV star.

Mr Justice Eady dismissed the argument yesterday saying that discharging the gagging order relating to CTB would be 'futile' because of the widespread publicity that was already in the public domain.

His decision was backed up later in the afternoon by Mr Justice Tugendhat who said there would be a 'cruel and destructive media frenzy'.

David Price QC, speaking on behalf of Ms Thomas agreed with the attempt to lift the injunction by News group Newspapers saying his client had been branded a 'blackmailer' throughout the world.

'She cannot tell anybody his name. That is the consequence of the order at present, which might seem a little bizarre seeing that the world is talking about my client's relationship with this claimant.'

Speaking on behalf of the star, known only as CTB, Hugh Tomlinson QC said that 'while playing the public role of victim', she had made a substantial sum of money from the case by selling her story to a number of newspapers. He also claimed that the footballer would be subject to 'wall-to-wall excoriation' in the Press.

He said: 'If the injunction were to be discharged in relation to her details, she would attempt to put a large amount of more private information into the public domain, some true, doubtless some false.'

According to the Sun, Mr Price told Mr Justice Eady after his decision to uphold the injunction: 'She has not had an opportunity to rebut the allegations being made against her.

'My client has been branded a blackmailer throughout the whole world on the basis of a hearing that she wasn't even notified of. My client's position is that she wishes to serve her defence and proceed with the matter to trial.'

He also said he wanted the footballer to attend court to be given the opportunity to justify the continuation of the injunction.

There's no chance of Giggs facing Imo in court - he's played the liar and the coward so far, why should he change .....

[Omah]

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/0...s-pr-analysis/

Stephen Lepitak
Public Relations / UK

PR guru Max Clifford has claimed that footballer Ryan Giggs could have kept his alleged affair with Imogen Thomas private had he not taken out a super injunction.

Clifford, who is representing Thomas, told ITV’s morning programme Daybreak that the Manchester United midfielder highlighted the relationship by taking out the injunction to prevent people from knowing about it.

His identity has been spread through out Twitter since he took out the injunction to prevent the media from reporting his name in connection with the alleged affair as a result.

''That's the irony of it. If Ryan Giggs hadn't taken out a super-injunction, probably we wouldn't know what had been going on. It's only because of that, and of course the fact that, in that super-injunction that he got to protect his privacy and that of his family, he named Imogen, that the whole thing started down that trail that led to it coming out in Parliament yesterday,” said Clifford.

Meanwhile, Paul Smith, crisis management specialist for Citypress said that Giggs should now be looking at his own PR management rather than any law suits he may have in mind.

“We are far more used to dealing with corporate crises than taking on the might of Max Clifford in the scandal arena but if Giggs asked for advice now I’d tell him to pay his lawyers what he owes, thank them through gritted teeth for successfully making him the Anti Cause and then set aside whatever cash he was planning on spending to try and sue 75,000 Twitter users to pay off Imogen Thomas and prevent her selling an exclusive,” advised Smith.

“He could then agree to his own exclusive with one big tabloid to talk about the whole legal battle, not the details of his affair, giving his fee to a suitable charity and trying to explain his thinking. This would hopefully give the media some kind of closure over the whole issue – which has become more about the super injunction than the alleged affair it concealed – and social media can move on to its next freedom of speech scalp for freedom of speech while he tries to repair his marriage.”

Smith added that while he wasn’t interested in Gigg’s private life, he was intrigued as to what possessed him to take on a legal battle that he was unlikely to win.

“Was he trying to protect his family from details? Doing it on principle? Driven by his legal team? The fact that it became a Parliamentary issue just shows how far beyond a simple ‘kiss and tell’ this has evolved and that’s largely his fault.”

Even Giggs has "feet of clay" .....

[arista]

Any Press men that mention Ryan Giggs name
are banned from future events.

[bobby21]

And the parody's start..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdO8lxHoUBw

[arista]

The injunction farce goes on! Irish paper flouts
gagging order obtained by married entertainer
who used it to cover up affair

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1OU5f7pvA



The Lucky Irish have this blokes name.