Excellent as ever.
I was watching some mumbo-jumbo about this today. Apparently it is all to do with privacy law over libel law, and their status in the EU. Under libel law, the paper would have to print a retraction and pay compensation. Under privacy law, the paper has to just pay a fine and costs, but no retraction and no compensation. Hence people trying to pre-empt libel (or sometimes not libel) with the injunctions using privacy law. The papers actually prefer this too. Or something. I wandered off and made toast.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 10 May 2011, 23:40,
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