Twitter account naming super-injunction celebrities attracts 34,000 followers

The Twitter account naming celebrities who have allegedly taken out super-injunctions to prevent details of their private lives being published has attracted more than 34,000 followers in less than a day.

Jemima Khan and Jeremy Clarkson
Jemima Khan and Jeremy Clarkson Photo
Jemima Khan and Jeremy Clarkson Photo: EPA
The tweets, which were all posted early afternoon on Sunday, list the alleged subjects of some of the super-injunctions awarded in recent months. One tweet falsely alleged that Jeremy Clarkson has an injunction preventing the publication or mention of compromising photographs of him and Jemima Khan. This has been emphatically denied by Khan via her own Twitter account. Miss Khan, a free speech campaigner, currently has more than 55,000 followers on Twitter.
Last week Gaby Logan, the BBC sports presenter, hit back at internet rumours that she had obtained a super injunction to block details of an alleged affair with Alan Shearer, the former England footballer.
The widespread discussion of super-injunction celebrities on Twitter highlights the weaknesses of laws preventing newspapers from publishing details about high profile public figures who have obtained gagging orders.
Louise Bagshawe, a Tory MP whose joke about one gagging order was censored on the BBC show Have I Got News for You last month, said that the use of super–injunctions to hide extramarital affairs is "cheapening British justice".
"You cannot keep things secret in this day and age because of Twitter and other social networking websites, which are outside the British jurisdiction", she said. "Impractical law is bad law, and the courts have been overtaken by social networking websites."

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