RJW v Guardian News and Media Ltd
RJW v Guardian News and Media Limited | |
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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(s) | [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(s) sitting | Maddison J |
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] 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]
References
- ^ "How the Trafigura story came to be told". The Guardian. 16 October 2009.
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- ISBN 978-0-19-069673-3.
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