Misplaced Pages

RJW v Guardian News and Media Limited ( 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. 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. 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.

References

1. "How the Trafigura story came to be told". The Guardian. 16 October 2009.
2. Hall, Holly Kathleen (June 2013). "Super-Injunction, What's Your Function?". Communication Law and Policy. 18 (3): 309–347. doi:10.1080/10811680.2013.797305.
3. Chadwick, Andrew (2017). "Power, Interdependence, and Hybridity in the Construction of Political News: Understanding WikiLeaks". The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 103–129. ISBN 978-0-19-069673-3.

External links

• High Court judgment

This article related to English law is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• English privacy case law
• Mass media in England
• High Court of Justice cases
• 2009 in United Kingdom case law
• The Guardian
• English law stubs