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kvalidir | 13:06 Thu 14th Aug 2014 | News
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Police searching Cliff Richard's home- finally.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28790718
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Shouldn't it be 'ello 'ello 'ello Kitty. ? If the Sun headline writers are reading this, you can have that^ one for free lads.
13:23 Thu 14th Aug 2014
A Super Injunction is reckoned to cost £75,000. Just reporting that there is a Super Injunction breaks the injunction and can result in a steep fine and pissibly prison. It is very secretive and stops any investigation into a story.

In many cases where the injunction has been broken, it usually turns out that the celebrity who obtained the injunction did indeed have something to hide. Ryan Giggs did have an affair with Imogen Thomas, and the injunction tied the hands of the free press.

I cannot really see the point in spending £75K if the story is not true. Especially if you are rich enough to afford to use the libel laws which could enrich you handsomely.

Apparently Kitty has had a Super Injunction for several years.
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DUM DUM DUM DUM- another thread bites the dust..one of Queen's greatest hits :)
How is an editor to know that such an injunction is in place? If a celebrity got wind of an investigation by a particular newspaper and was granted an injunction and then another newspaper stumbled across the same story how would the second editor know?
How would you know a super injunction is in place ? You would know in five mins as a reporter coz as soon as you started investigating someone would tell you. That might be the subject, their spokesman...
'You can't touch me, I've got an injunction...'
That doesn't seem right.
Why do you say it's biting the dust kval? I may not be posting on it musch but I'm following it with interest. Many less illuminating threads have lasted much much longer than this one ;)

Scooping....are you a journo?

Baths x
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The Ed is fairly hair triggered about this super injunction and can't say I blame him, the other far longer thread has disappeared itself.
Bathsheba: ex-Sun, Mirror and Express. very ex.
So why is it being reported on now if there's a super injunction?

The Elm Guest house story first broke on 7th August 1982 when the Daily Express ran this story and some follow up stories for a few days after. The People, Evening Standard, Sunday Mirror and News of the World all reported on the story.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_uxR-OGhY7U/UZkWo3wP9lI/AAAAAAAAN4Y/-vIxyu8eEF8/s1600/notwelm1.jpg

Then nothing was heard for 30 years. Possibly a D. Notice scared off Fleet Street's editors.
Aah...the Breaking News one....so it has :(
I shall have to read up on super injunctions.

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Cliffy broke his own SI by making a statement saying he was innocent. The police then made a statement about the search of his flat. In those circumstances any editor would feel confident that reporting those two events would not land him in clink.
// So why is it being reported on now if there's a super injunction? //

What is being reported is that the Police have raided Cliff Richard's home. The press were invited and told it was in connection with historic sex allegations. The injunction cannot forbid reporting that the police are making an investigation. The Super Injunction (if it exists) only bans the celeb being connected to the hotel and the illegal activities alledged to have been done there.
Gromit: A D Notice would not apply in this, or any similar, cases. They are reserved or matters of national security. It may be the case, of course, that Cliffy's singing poses a threat to the welfare of the nation...
Scooping,
The Elm Guest house list contained many serving MPs, mostly from the Government, but also Sinn Fein, Labour and Liberal ones. It contained Cabinet Ministers, Palace officials, and MI5 officers. I am sure a D Notice would be used in that instance.
The Notice would prevent any story on the celebs because that would reveal the people protected by the D Notice (if it exists).

D. Notices were not legally binding and editors can break them such as Rushbriger over Edward Snoewdon. However, editors that comply with them tend to get Honours and other priviledges.
As all the newspaper and other media are now awash with this story, I can't see how the High Court can continue with the Super Injunction. In the case of Ryan Giggs, the Court had to back down in the face of inevitability.

"Super Injunction"....a new phrase which means that we no longer have a free press.
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C+J...Harris, Clifford, and Hall are all walking about OK, but only in Prison exercise yards, and far from free !
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I don't understand what Mikey has said wrong?

This story is front page news.

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