Five celebrities may experience many a sleepless night after a judge overturned an order which banned news outlets from making known a top celebrity and details of his private life.
On Friday, Mr Justice Tugendhaut, who was the acting judge in the John Terry scandal earlier this year, reversed the decision of a received gagging order, legally known as a super injunction, awarded to a premier league footballer in August. This reversal may now open the way for five other super injunctions awarded to celebs to be challenged.
'They will all be trembling now'
Media law expert Mark Stephens - of for top London firm Finers Stephens Innocent has re-iterated this point:
'Celebrities will be trembling because we are now seeing that some of these injunctions should never have been granted. Judges are now looking at applications more critically.'
He has now warned that celebrities may use this to attempt to 'pull the wool over judge's eyes' by claiming that this new decision may lead to them being blackmailed about their private lives.
This decision is a major win for journalists and their press freedom.
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