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April 14, 2016 11:16 am PDT
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How British journalists talk about people they're not allowed to talk about
The "super-injunction" (previously) is a weird feature of English and Welsh law through which the very wealthy can hire bulldog lawyers to get judges to pass an order prohibiting any newspaper or journalist from disclosing true facts about them, on pain of jail-time. (more…)
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