Constituent hit with “hyper-injunction”

An unnamed constituent of an MP was banned from discussing a public health issue with ‘members of Parliament, journalists and lawyers’. John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, revealed the existence of the gagging orders, dubbed hyper-injunctions, last week during a Parliamentary debate. Mr Hemming was able to reveal the existence of the injunction as a result of Parliamentary privilege. He explained: “From a health and safety point of view, we want to think that the water we are drinking is safe and that it will not cause health problems; the difficulty in this case is that we...

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