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Ryan Giggs named by MP as injunction footballer | |
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A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been named in Parliament by Lib Dem MP John Hemming as Ryan Giggs. | |
Mr Hemming named him during an urgent Commons question on privacy orders. | |
Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player. | Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player. |
Earlier the High Court again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted. | Earlier the High Court again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted. |
Parliamentary privilege protects MPs and peers from prosecution for statements made in the House of Commons or House of Lords. | |
In court, Mr Justice Eady rejected a fresh application by Sun publisher News Group Newspapers to discharge the privacy injunction. | |
The judge said: "The court's duty remains to try and protect the claimant, and particularly his family, from intrusion and harassment so long as it can." | The judge said: "The court's duty remains to try and protect the claimant, and particularly his family, from intrusion and harassment so long as it can." |
Joint committee | |
On Sunday, a Scottish paper named the man who was identified on Twitter as having taken out a privacy injunction. | On Sunday, a Scottish paper named the man who was identified on Twitter as having taken out a privacy injunction. |
The Attorney General Dominic Grieve told the Commons the prime minister had asked for a joint committee of peers and MPs to investigate the use of privacy orders. | |
David Cameron has written a letter to John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons culture committee, recommending the setting up of a new body. | |
Mr Cameron told ITV1's Daybreak banning newspapers from naming such stars while the information was widely available on the internet was both "unsustainable" and "unfair". |