Twitter ‘outers’ take heed, lawyers have recently announced that twitter users who ‘out’ celebrities, who have been granted ‘super injunctions’ by the courts are breaching libel laws. A senior associate at Pinsent Masons, Danvers Baillieu has commented that any individual who tweets or distributes information over a social media website that breaks a super injunction is in contempt of court.
He stated that, “If you know a piece of information is under an injunction and you broadcast it in any kind of way – including tweeting it, then you are inviting trouble!”
Mr Baillieu acknowledged though that in practical terms, after weeks of twitter users tweeting about the identities of celebrities under super injunctions, it would be extremely difficult for the authorities to take action.
However there is no sign that the storm shall subside any time soon. In the past 24 hours actress Jemina Khan has been forced to deny that she was having an affair with Top Gear celebrity Jeremy Clarkson. Jemina tweeted ““This is NOT TRUE. I have no super injunction and I am friends with Jeremy’s wife who I had dinner with last night. If Jeremy has a super injunction it has got NOTHING to do with me”.
It is believed that in excess of 30 such super injunctions are in effect at the moment. They include actors, footballers and other media personalities. Super injunctions who have their basis in the 1998 Human Rights act, have become controversial in recent times. First used by oil company Trafigura in an attempt to prevent the reporting of their toxic waste spill in the Ivory Coast, they have become popular among promiscuous male celebrities.
Karrie Kehoe
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