RJW v Guardian News and Media Limited ([2009] EWHC 2540 (QB)), also known as Trafigura v Guardian News and Media Limited and the Trafigura case, was a 2009 legal action in which Trafigura attempted to use a super-injunction to prevent the press reporting details of toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast.[1][unreliable source] A landmark case in UK privacy law, the case brought these types of injunction under scrutiny and caused government concern about the injunctions and how they are used.[2] The injunction was released on The Guardian after Paul Farrelly MP brought up the topic during Parliamentary Questions and the publication of the report on WikiLeaks.[3]
| RJW v Guardian News and Media Limited | |
|---|---|
| Court | High Court of England and Wales |
| Full case name | RJW and SJW v. Guardian News and Media Ltd and Person(s) |
| Decided | 11 September 2009 |
| Citation | [2009] EWHC 2540 (QB) |
| Cases cited | Lord Browne of Madingley v. Associated Newspapers Ltd. [2008] QB 103 |
| Legislation cited | Human Rights Act 1988 |
| Court membership | |
| Judge sitting | Maddison J |
References
edit- ^ "How the Trafigura story came to be told". The Guardian. 16 October 2009.
- ^ Hall, Holly Kathleen (June 2013). "Super-Injunction, What's Your Function?". Communication Law and Policy. 18 (3): 309–347. doi:10.1080/10811680.2013.797305.
- ^ Chadwick, Andrew (2017). "Power, Interdependence, and Hybridity in the Construction of Political News: Understanding WikiLeaks". The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 103–129. ISBN 978-0-19-069673-3.
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